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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Does this mean that I don't have to pick up my wife's cleaning tomorrow?
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Please wish Sailor Son of Cindydawg a belated birthday for me.
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Here is my prediction. He will announce that they are nuclear. He will then begin to blackmail all the Arab countries around him until they submit. He will begin to give the technology (if he hasn't already) to the rabid ranks of Hezbollah, Syria, Al Qaeda, Palestinians etc. etc. This ain't over yet folks. It is just the beginning.
Oh, GREAT!!! . . .
Now it's gonna rain buckets. Thanks.
If that little dickhead does anything foolish, it will be for him.
My plane doesn't leave until the 23rd, so I guess I'm safe. Let's hope I don't have to cancel plans -- or have plans cancelled on me!
Hope he's a Yankee fan. If not he might be looking forward to tomorrow's doom.
Yes he is and the SWEEP is complete.
Call SAC and get the bombers in the air.
Get the birds in the silos ready to fly.
Tell the subs to stand by to launch.
OK, now you muzzie idiot, your move !
I put on a clean pair of underwear this week. Is that good?
If I'm not dead by 4:30 EST, I'm gonna have a Heinie before the cocktail hour starts.
In that case, I would like to take this oppurtunity one more time to thank Hillary Clinton for her support in the Wart on Terror. I guess that will be Bills hell. He'll have to gets all his BJs from Hillary from now on.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
It's already August 22 somewhere on the other side of the International Date Line. So far, those countries haven't had anything happen there. But the day is young and anything could happen. I hope not, though.
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