ISIS May Be Testing Chemical Weapons and Obama Refuses to Meet With Jordan’s King Abdullah

Yet as ISIS threat grows, President Obama refuses to meet with Jordan’s King Abdullah on his royal visit to Washington.

By Joel C. Rosenberg (@joelcrosenberg on Twitter)

(Washington, D.C., January 13, 2016) — In a chilling story that seems ripped from the pages of THE THIRD TARGET and THE FIRST HOSTAGE, Fox News is reporting that “there is growing evidence that ISIS is experimenting with chemical weapons,” and that “the number of foreign fighters [has] hit a new high.”

Last year, just 20,000 foreign fighters were operating as part of the ISIS shock troops, Fox reports. Now that number has skyrocketed to 36,000, and they come from 120 countries.

Former deputy CIA director Mike Morrell, testifying before Congress on ISIS’s development of chemical weapons capabilities, warned that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the leaders of ISIS “have made two things very clear publicly in documents that have come out. One is that if they acquire these weapons they would use and they wouldn’t care that the vast majority of those killed were civilians. and they have also provided a religious justification very similar to Al Qaeda’s, in fact I think it is identical to Al Qaeda’s justification for using such weapons.”

Yet even as the ISIS threat to the U.S., Israel and Jordan grows, President Obama this week refused to meet with Jordan’s King Abdullah II during the Arab monarch’s official visit to Washington. The White House said Mr. Obama was too busy.

“This is insane,” I told CBN News during my interview on Tuesday. “The King of Jordan is probably the most faithful Sunni ally that the United States has, and President Obama doesn’t have time to meet with him?”

“He had time for Matt Lauer this morning on the ‘Today Show.’ You know, I mean, carve out 15 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour with our main ally in the most dangerous fight that we are in right now,” I noted. “This just goes to the heart of it, if you understand Islam, if you understand the Middle East, then meet with your allies.”

Please pray for Mr. Obama that the Lord would open his eyes and that of his national security team to the real and growing threat of Radical and Apocalyptic Islam. Please open the eyes of the presidential candidates as well. At the same time, please pray for the King of Jordan and the people of Jordan as they face an existential threat from the Islamic State, yet cannot even be received by the President of the United States.

To read more about these stories, plus see details on Iran’s latest move to humiliate the United States, and watch the videos or read the transcripts of my interviews on Fox, CBN and the TODAY Show over the past week, please go to the blog — https://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/

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