10/19/06 = Night of Destiny
10/23/06 = End of Ramadan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1694213/replies?c=796
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1694213/replies?c=732
"Night of Destiny" is in "one week"
Lailat al-Qadr (Night of Destiny) is roughly a week from today (October 19, 2006). There are always different dates observed by different Muslim groups, but they all fall in the last 10 days of Ramadan (the next 10 days).
Kim Myong-Chol (the designated DPRK "unofficial spokesman") told a South Korean newspaper today that "everything will be settled in a week" and again threatened NYC and DC.
It is worth remembering that during the last crisis that North Korea triggered while we were preparing for Iraq in late 2002/early 2003 (when they declared the covert uranium program, expelled the UN monitors, and reprocessed the "frozen" plutonium), the rhetoric went off the charts and Kim went underground for two months in expectation of war.
They used a term at that time that is not usual for them - - "Holy War".
Literally thousands of Mideast terrorists passed through the training camps run by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s . . . concurrent with the time the Iranian President was a commander in the Revolutionary Guards, and specifically, the international unit responsible for coordination with various terrorist organizations in such training camps as those located (at the time) in the Bekaa, Libya and North Korea.
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/01/13/nkorea.analysis/
Phrases like "sea of fire", "thousand-fold revenge" and "holy war" (surprising, perhaps, from such an ardently Stalinist state) would hardly seem to indicate a regime actively seeking to be at peace with the world.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A4026-2003Jan16
In the very midst of these talks, North Korea withdrew from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The next day, it got bolder and threatened to resume testing and exporting missiles, and, just to emphasize who is dictating terms to whom, North Korea threatened "holy war," a true innovation for an officially atheist country.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,75549,00.html
The isolated regime's bellicose rhetoric reached a new pitch in the past week, when North Korea escalated its nuclear standoff with Washington, warning of a "Third World War," "a sea of fire" and a "holy war" against the United States.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52417
(I do not like WND, but the English translation of the original Chosun article is not yet posted)
Thursday, October 12, 2006
NUCLEAR WAR-FEAR
North Korea threatens
New York, Washington
South checks out reports of plans
for second nuclear test in 2-3 days
Posted: October 12, 2006
11:37 a.m. Eastern (snipped)
WASHINGTON – As reports circulated of a second imminent nuclear test, a high-ranking North Korean official who is called the unofficial spokesman for Kim Jong-il issued a not-so-veiled threat to the United States today in an interview with South Korean radio.
"Everything will be settled in a week," said Kim Myong-chol on KBS Radio. "That is, whether we, Korean people, will remain as we are now, or lose, or New York will lose, or Washington, D.C., will lose, it will all be settled once and for all."
The report was carried in Chosun Ilbo, a Korean-language newspaper in the south. . .
http://www.time.com/time/columnist/printout/0,8816,187541,00.html
Saturday, Dec. 08, 2001
Why the FBI Sweats Through Ramadan
Islam's 'Night of Power' is a red-letter day for Al Qaeda
By ELAINE SHANNON
Al Qaeda's 'Night of Power'?
The FBI has decided to stop sending out threat warnings to put the nation on the alert — "How could we be on higher alert than we are?" says one agent. But privately, the agency remains intensely worried about Al Qaeda schemes poised to erupt like fireworks around the sacred moment of Al-Qadr, the Night of Power, when Mohammed received the first words of the Koran from Allah. The precise date of the Night of Power, or Night of Destiny, changes from year to year, but it is celebrated during the last ten days of the Muslim holy month or Ramadan, which is due to end around Dec. 14. Analysts have concluded that Al Qaeda followers plotted at least three acts of terror around the Night of Power in the 1999-2000 season. All were interdicted. This year, says a federal official "we're kind of sweating it out through the end of Ramadan."
Shahroudi calls for solidarity of Muslims worldwide with Palestinians
Tehran, Oct 16, IRNA
Int'l Qods Day-Shahroudi
Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi said on Monday that the International Qods Day sets a charter for practical steps to be taken by the Muslims worldwide to terminate occupation of holy Qods al-Sharif.
He paid tribute to the late Imam Khomeini for designating the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan as the International Qods Day and said that such a strategy has been the legacy of the late Imam Khomeini.
Ayatollah Shahroudi called for solidarity of the Muslims worldwide with the Palestinians suffering from the Zionist regime's systematic attacks against them killing women, children and civilians almost every day under a diversity of pretexts.
He expressed outrage at the intensified incursions of the Zionist army into the east Gaza on the eve of the International Day of Qods taking extra toll among defenseless people living in east Gaza Strip.
The Israeli regime has killed at least 250 children, women and defenseless civilians in the latest wave of revenge massacre for the kidnapping one soldier by the Palestinian defense force since June 28.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0610160331192850.htm
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