Did you say 24? Only one person can save us now.
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."
» Click here for Brian Ross & Investigative Team's Homepage
Every once in awhile, I read a post that makes me almost wet my pants.
BTW, what does a clam feel like before a storm?
Oh, how nice!
I visit your FR page often. I love the pics.
In your case, go ahead and drink, lightweight...lol.
Did you say 24? Only one person can save us now.
9/11 was a Tuesday.
There is only one Doomsday!
A beauty ain't she? lol
LOL -- and thanks. I have 14 on hand. How did that happen?
Probably what it feels like any other time .... hard and crunchy on the outside, wet and squishy on the inside.
I guess kinda like a midieval knight would feel like to a dragon.
There's an oil drum in the machine shop filled all the way to the top with unopened beer cans and bottles from last summer (my sister's wedding reception). A shame really. The bottles might still be drinkable, but the cans, well, they would give any person a nice dose of aluminum oxide poisoning.
Why was it unloaded afterward?
My sister and her husband sent a large gob of invitations out, but there was a smaller than expected crowd.
There's gotta be 4 or 5 cases of beer in that oil drum.
What a waste, huh?
Yeah, that's what I told dad a couple weeks ago when it was 110 in the shade and we were sitting on the deck drinking a couple of cold beers.
I'm going with the Paulaner Wheat Beer. It's what I always drink when the world is ending.
YEAH - MY FAVORITE!!!!
What is with the obsession with fearmongering lately? Doomsday? Are you kidding me?
There was a time when we knew the Soviets had megaton warheads aimed at us. Hundreds of them. They were functional. They would obliterate an entire city in the blink of an eye.
Now people are stretching disbelief to assume that Iran has working nuclear warheads. They got them from countries that may or may not have them - that's another assumption (North Korea). This makes very little sense to me.
Those of you who say that this crackpot in Iran wants to be annihilated or wants to bring about the apocalypse are changing the rules. That's exactly the definition of a conspiracy theorist. If something doesn't fit, it's part of the conspiracy. No evidence? Either we just can't see it or it's part of the conspiracy.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.