d support of Israel’s massive attack upon Lebanon, and which now threatens to engulf the nation of Syria, and as we can read as reported by Israel’s Haaretz News Service in their article titled "Syrian minister: We will join conflict if IDF approaches Syria", and which says:

"Syria will enter the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah if Israel Defense Forces ground troops enter Lebanon and approach Syria, Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said in an interview published on Sunday."If Israel invades Lebanon over ground and comes near to us, Syria will not sit tight. She will join the conflict," he told newspaper ABC."

The American and British effort to re-arm Iran, as a ‘counter-balance’ to Israeli war aims, also suffered another blow as Russian FSB agents alerted Bulgaria to a shipment of nuclear material sent to Iran by the Western Powers and which was intercepted, and as we can read as reported by England’s Daily Mail News Service in their article titled "Outcry as border guards seize British 'dirty bomb' lorry heading for Iran", and which says:

"Border guards seized a British lorry on its way to make a delivery to the Iranian military - after discovering it was packed with radioactive material that could be used to build a dirty bomb. The lorry set off from Kent on its way to Tehran but was stopped by officials at a checkpoint on Bulgaria's northernborder with Romania after a scanner indicated radiation levels 200 times above normal.

The lorry was impounded and the Bulgarian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NPA) was called out. On board they found ten lead-lined boxes addressed to the Iranian Ministry of Defence. Inside each box was a soil-testing device, containing highly dangerous quantities of radioactive caesium 137 and americium-beryllium. The soil testers had been sent to Iran by a British firm with the apparent export approval of the Department of Trade and Industry."

The ‘tit-for-tat’ assassinations currently underway between the Coup and Counter-Coup forces in the United States, and which have previously reported on in our July 13th report titled "Top Israeli Spy Murdered In US As American Faction Split Hits UK With Murder Of Enron Banker", claimed yet another victim as the chain-sawed body of the Popes and Vatican’s lead banker, Gianmario Roveraro, has been found, and as we can read as reported by Britain’s Independent News Service in their article titled "Opus Dei financier is found dismembered under bridge", and which says:

"The badly beaten and mutilated corpse of Gianmario Roveraro, one of Italy's reputedly most pious financiers, was discovered "cut to pieces" under a motorway overpass near Parma yesterday, some two weeks after he was kidnapped while returning home from a meeting of the conservative Roman Catholic group Opus Dei."

Of this Opus Dei secret organization we can read:

"Opus Dei is a subordinate organization to the Pope, who is in control of the Knights of Malta, and therefore there are Knights of Malta in Opus Dei. The Jesuits control Opus Dei through the hierarchy of the Pope and through the Knights of Malta. Opus Dei is composed of prominent Roman Catholic businessmen and politicians who have given themselves over to “God’s work”—that’s what Opus Dei means—for making the Pope the Universal Monarch of the world, ruling the world from Solomon’s rebuilt temple in Jerusalem."

To the United States Military Leaders efforts to forestall the plans of the Vatican, and Israel, to complete their plans for their ‘New World Order’ and completing the new Solomon Temple in Jerusalem from which the ‘new’ Pope will rule, it remains doubtful as to their success without allowing for the significant destruction of many of their cities from Israeli nuclear bombs.

To the British and American plan to allow for the destruction Israeli military might by allowing a nuclear attack from Iran seems to be the course they have embarked upon, but which all parties to this insanity could likewise see the destruction of their own nations.

The events in both the United States regions of Texas and California this coming week will allow us to more accurately determine the direction this World War is headed in, and upon which when known we’ll report upon here.

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Lights Go On in Queens, One Block at a Time by Robert d. McFadden

Consolidated Edison reported major progress yesterday in the week-old struggle to restore power to western Queens, but thousands faced a new workweek without electricity and frustrations boiled over as some officials called for a declaration of emergency and the resignation of the utility’s chief executive.

Kevin Burke, Con Ed’s chairman and chief executive, said at a 4 p.m. briefing that utility crews had restored power to nearly 16,000 of the approximately 25,000 customers affected by the blackout. In human terms, that meant that the lights, elevators, refrigerators and air-conditioners were back on for an estimated 64,000 of the 100,000 people who had suffered through the ordeal.

In an update last night, Chris Olert, a spokesman for the utility, said that by 5:45 p.m., service had been restored to more than 19,800 customers. That amounts to about 79,200 people, using a layman’s rule of thumb that counts four people for every “customer,” which could be a single home or an entire apartment building.

At a news conference at Con Edison’s headquarters in Manhattan, his second briefing of the weekend after five days of public silence, Mr. Burke said that Con Edison crews were working around the clock “street by street, manhole by manhole, to get all the customers back in service.”

The dwindling numbers suggested that the end might soon be in sight, but Con Edison has come under a barrage of criticism as having grossly underestimated the extent of the blackout, especially in the first few days.

Mr. Burke insisted that he could still provide no estimate of when full power might be restored to eight square miles of Astoria, Long Island City, Woodside, Sunnyside, Hunters Point and other sections. Underground cables had burned out in those areas, apparently overloaded by the utility’s decision to keep the power flowing to most of the 400,000 residents of western Queens despite the loss of 10 major feeder cables that power the area.

That decision meant that all of the area’s power was running through only 12 feeder cables, and through transformers and secondary cables that were not designed to take such a heavy load.

Mr. Burke said he had no explanation for why the 10 major cables went down while Con Edison’s 56 other feeder cable networks continued to work. The root cause of the blackout, one of the city’s most prolonged in decades, is under investigation by the utility itself and by the Queens district attorney’s office, the City Council and the state’s Public Service Commission.

Mr. Burke did offer another mea culpa. “I want to give special thanks to the residents of northwest Queens for their incredible patience during a very difficult week,” he said. “Again, I apologize to the people who live there. We are not happy with what is happening out there. But we are doing our best to get the lights back.”

But some elected officials were not satisfied. “The time for explanation and apologies is over,” Representative Joseph Crowley, a Democrat of New York, said at another news conference. He declared that the blackout had grown to “disastrous proportions.”

City Councilman Eric Gioia, a Democrat who represents much of the blackout area, said that “the people of Queens have gone from frustrated to angry to scared.”

He added, “I am gravely concerned that there will be fatalities because of this crisis.”

While city officials said the blackout had caused no deaths or serious injuries, the family of Andres Rodriguez, 60, an Astoria painter found dying in his car on Friday, blamed the power failure and three sleepless nights in a sweltering apartment for his death.

“The heat was definitely affecting him,” said his son, Andres G. Rodriguez. The man’s wife, Maria, said she found him “suffocating in the car.”

But Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman for the city’s chief medical examiner, said that Mr. Rodriguez had a history of heart disease and diabetes and evidently died of natural causes.

She said he did not appear to have suffered hyperthermia, which she called a temperature over 105 degrees. An autopsy will be conducted if the family requests one, she said.

As thousands of blackout victims, particularly the elderly and infirm, suffered through a seventh day in darkened, stifling homes and apartments, the anger and frustration that many have felt found expression in a group of Queens political leaders yesterday.

At a news conference in Sunnyside, Representative Crowley, Councilman Gioia, State Assemblyman Michael N. Gianaris and Assemblywoman Catherine T. Nolan, all Democrats who represent constituents in the blackout area, called on Gov. George E. Pataki to designate western Queens a disaster area and request federal emergency aid, including generators and even National Guard troops if necessary.

“If this were an area of 100,000 people in upstate New York, the governor would have declared it a disaster area,” Mr. Crowley said.

Saleem Cheeks, a spokesman for Mr. Pataki, did not respond directly to the call for a declaration of disaster, but he said the governor had been monitoring the situation closely, had spoken to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the city’s emergency management officials and had offered any necessary assistance.

Con Edison has pledged to reimburse residents up to $7,000 for spoiled food and other damages, and the city has promised to assist small businesses affected.

At another news conference in Sunnyside and in a series of interviews, Mr. Gianaris and Mr. Gioia called on Mr. Burke to accept the blame for the blackout and step down as Con Edison’s chief executive.

“Kevin Burke has presided over a company that has failed the people of Queens, lied to the people of New York about how bad it was and put people’s lives in danger,” Mr. Gianaris said in an interview. To reporters later, he used even stronger language, saying that Mr. Burke and other utility officials should be held criminally responsible.

Mr. Gioia called the blackout the last straw. “Con Ed misled the public,” he said. “They misled the media and the mayor. They’ve shown no plan to get out of this crisis.”

He spoke of elderly sick people and a woman unable to get milk for her baby. “When Kevin Burke called this an inconvenience it made my blood boil,” Mr. Gioia said.

Mr. Burke, at his news briefing, brushed aside questions about the demands for his resignation, saying he was focused only on the restoration of power.

Mr. Bloomberg, in a morning briefing with an array of his commissioners, said that crime was still down in the area and that police officers were aiding drivers at intersections without traffic lights. He said that air-conditioned senior centers were open, vans were providing medical aid, and private and city agencies were reaching out to vulnerable residents with water, food and other help.

There were no major fires in the blackout area, he said, but officials noted many manhole fires, apparently caused by sparking as new cables were re-electrified by 400 Con Edison crews, whose ranks were supplemented by others from Long Island and other states. It all sounded much like Saturday’s report.

But even the mayor, who has given generally upbeat assessments of Con Edison’s efforts to cope, expressed some frustration. He wondered at the company’s methods of estimating the number of customers without power: by telephone calls, or by having personnel drive up and down streets counting lights in the windows after dark.

“It doesn’t sound like it makes any sense in this day and age that that’s the way you’d find out who is without power, but the truth of the matter is, the only two ways they have to find out is if you call them — or call 311 and we switch you to them — or if they drive down the street and don’t see any lights,” the mayor said.

“Are we satisfied with the progress?” he asked. “It is what it is.”

Reporting for this article was contributed by Michael Amon, Sewell Chan, Ann Farmer, Kate Hammer and Colin Moynihan.