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shawa
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 Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject: Is Tomorrow Doomsday? |
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| Quote: | Is Tomorrow Doomsday?
August 21, 2006 12:52 PM
Asa Eslocker Reports:
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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This is what all the fuss is about:
| Quote: | The Missiles of 27 Rajab
By Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu
July 28, 2006
This year, we are told, the Muslim commemorations associated with their calendar date 27 Rajab will occur on August 22. On this a most celebratory date in the Islamic calendar, best-selling author and Islamic scholar Robert Spencer reminds that the Prophet Muhammed made his ascension into heaven from the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, an event known as the Miraj. “[T]he Night Journey has become firmly embedded in the Islamic consciousness,” Spencer notes, “such that Muslims today celebrate it as one of the central events of Muhammad’s life.” And now, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has selected that as an auspicious date to create a light over the skies of Jerusalem such as the world has never seen since the Miraj.
If as the president of the Reform Party in Syria, Farid Ghadry claims, “Ahmadinejad is planning an illumination of the night sky over Jerusalem to rival the one that greeted the Prophet of Islam on his journey,” then it is difficult to imagine anything other than a full-scale Iranian nuclear attack. As Spencer continues, “a nuclear attack on Jerusalem or even an all-out conventional assault against Israel by Iran would be consistent with Ahmadinejad’s oft-repeated denials of Israel’s right to exist and recent predictions that its demise was at hand.” These observations are the latest from a growing list of ominous portents from Iranian and Syrian leaders too horrific to ignore.
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To begin we review what we know for certain: 1) Iran has been focused on acquisition of nuclear weapons, working for years with the AQ Khan group and North Korea; 2) Iran has for all intents and purposes declared war on Israel and America (though the U.S. has not understood Iran’s commitment), outlining its war policy as one of utter extermination; 3) Iran has worked unceasingly with North Korean scientists and engineers to improve missile technology, resulting in several models of varying ranges and payloads, and with highly improved mobility over SCUDs; 4) Iran has used surrogate movements and states to support clandestinely attacks on Israel and America (the latter inside Iraq); 5) Iran has positioned large numbers of technologically advanced weapons and the troops from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to assist inside Lebanon and Syria.
We have confirmed that Iran was a sponsor and participant in North Korea’s early July 2006 missile tests, and have shown rather convincingly that the real testing was the ability to deploy rapidly missile units, each capable of firing several weapons independently. The capstone of the test was that multiple missiles fired on schedule, each simulating many, and that the tests were frighteningly successful. Equally important was that the public misunderstood the real purpose of the tests and vastly underestimated the value derived from them.....
Cont'd at Front Page Magazine |
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dusty
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds like the Patriot anti-missle batteries may get a workout.
We won't have long to wait. Tomorrow is tomorrow.
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JN173
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| dusty wrote: | Sounds like the Patriot anti-missle batteries may get a workout.
We won't have long to wait. Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Dusty |
It is now 2:38 am tomorrow in Isreal.
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dusty
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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Well....hell. That makes tomorrow today.
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NortonPete
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:56 am Post subject: |
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Hate to be a plagiarizer BUT
Bring it on, the next day will be your last |
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BuffaloJack
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:21 am Post subject: |
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It's only Doomsday if you're an ignorant superstitious fool who probably still thinks the world is flat.
For the rest of us it's just August 22.
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Deuce
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| BuffaloJack wrote: | It's only Doomsday if you're an ignorant superstitious fool who probably still thinks the world is flat.
For the rest of us it's just August 22. |
I'm with you Buffalojack,
and the Media will continue to bring us "is tomorrow doomsday" chicken little news ad infinitum! The more they step in it, the more Americans will come around to the realization that they've been had by the same 'how can we pull the wool over their eyes today' group that snowed them for the last administration!
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DLI78
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:27 am Post subject: |
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FYI, since I have a helluva time remembering how to say Ahmadinejad, I've translated his name to "I'm_a_Damn_Jihad". Now when I say it fast it sounds like his real name, which is probably the same as my translation.
Nuke 'em till they glow!
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USAFE5
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:25 am Post subject: |
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MY brother and I were discussing (ok just cussing) about this mess. We have decided that if the Iranians want nuclear weapons we should give them to them - free delivery ......BOOOOOOOMMMM
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Doll
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:37 am Post subject: |
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| USAFE5 wrote: | | MY brother and I were discussing (ok just cussing) about this mess. We have decided that if the Iranians want nuclear weapons we should give them to them - free delivery ......BOOOOOOOMMMM |
Ditto! 
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dusty
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:49 am Post subject: |
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And dip it in pigs blood before we drop it.
Dusty
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