Posted on 08/21/2006 11:18:07 AM PDT by pissant
While no extra safeguards are in place, U.S. law enforcement are not ignoring the possible significance of tomorrow's date, August 22, a date that marks an important historic event on the Islamic calendar.
Internet websites have been full of speculation that it could be a target date for terrorists in commemoration of the return of the 12th imam, a supposed day of reckoning for Shiites.
August 22 was rumored by intelligence experts to be a possible date that the London plotters would blow-up passenger planes headed towards the United States, though it is not known if the suspects were Shiite extremists.
This year, August 22 marks the holy day on the Islamic calendar that is the day of reckoning for Shiites. Some Shiite sects believe that August 22 could correspond to the end of the world. And just today, after much hype, Iran has announced that it will continue to develop its nuclear program. To followers of Iranian President Ahmadinejad, this is a well-timed affront to Israel, the United States and the world. The United Nations had given Iran until the end of the month to respond, but Ahmadinejad had made it clear to all Iranians and the world that he intended to respond on the eve of August 22.
Whether or not this announcement is the end of Ahmadinejad's plans for August 22, one expert says we will have to wait and watch.
"The only thing we can know is that the date was not chosen by accident," said Robert Spencer, Director of Jihadwatch.org and an adjunct fellow at the Free Congress Foundation, a conservative think tank. "It does seem very likely, very probable, that he has something major in mind, whether only a major announcement or a major attack, we will soon see."
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Seattle gets swept consecutively by all the other teams in their division? OUCH!
So far, so good...
Yeh - we've been striving for consistency this year and now we've found it.
Teheran ---> 5:28 AM, 6:45 PM ---> 9:58 PM (21 Aug), 11:15 AM (22 Aug)
Jerusalem ---> 6:08 AM, 7:15 PM ---> 11:08 PM (21 Aug), 12:15 PM (22 Aug)
IOW, sunrise of the 22nd in Iran is about 10pm Eastern time tonight, and about an hour later in Israel. Sunset is about 11:15 tommorrow, and again about an hour later in Israel.
If something "big" happens during the DAY of the 22nd, it may well happen while most of us here in America are sleeping.
Well at least the Rangers are safe from the cellar now.
I'm in!
Its now 7am here. He had better not mess with my day. Its my grocery shopping day, and the one day a month I get a Burger King and socialize with some GI's......!
Screw this pissant and his baby nukes (if he has them at all). If he really wants to run with the big dogs.......let's see how he handles waves of B-52's, B-1's, B-2's, nuclear attack subs off his coast, etc. etc. in response.
Turn his s**thole of a country into the world's biggest parking lot.
Your call, boy. See ya..........and raise ya. Then come tell me how weak the US is, asshole.
Surely they will wait until the FOX Breaking News gong can be seen by all.
Greta Van Sufferin' will announce that Lacey Peterson's head has landed in Natalie Hollaway's peanut butter.
It's now 2 AM in Tehran.
Along with JonBenet's DNA fingenail scrapings.
fingenail=fingernail.
Already done. My glass stays 3/4 full:')
The media must be in severe depression. Speaking of which, Debbie is about to be born. Maybe that will perk um up.
Sheesh, it's doomsday every day for those sycophant left winged lapdogs like Brian Ross.
I guess we're supposed to shop like there's no tomorrow.
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