Posted on 07/07/2006 7:20:30 AM PDT by FreedomNeocon
The U.S. intelligence community has not been surprised by Iran's refusal to respond to a Western incentive package to suspend its uranium enrichment. Intelligence sources said Iran, following North Korea's model, intends to delay any response or negotiations for as long as possible.
The European Union and the United States demanded that Iran reply to the Western incentive package of nuclear technology, fuel and aircraft by June 29. But Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said Teheran would submit an answer by Aug. 22.
The U.S. intelligence community has been trying to figure out why Ahmadinejad chose that date. Sources said the community was stumped until some Islam experts translated the Gregorian date to that of the Muslim calendar.
Then came the surprise that has the intelligence community worried.
Aug. 22 corresponds to Rajab 27 on the Muslim calendar. The date is called Lailat Al Israa, when Mohammed ascended to heaven from the Al Aqsa mosque to receive the five daily prayers. Later, Al Aqsa came to represent Jerusalem.
The Muslim commemoration is meant to be a night of struggle, accompanied by thunder and lightening, resembling the story of Moses ascending Mount Sinai to receive the Old Testament.
Ahmadinejad could be hinting to the West that he is preparing a major attack on Israel. Or, the Iranian president could be warning that unless the West caves in, he would escalate tension in the region. The lightening in Mohammed's story could represent Iranian missiles.
What is clear is that Ahmadinejad does not see himself as an Iranian leader, but a Muslim prophet, using imagery to portray himself as a messiah for both Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims.
But thats right... George Bush is the greatest threat to the world... right Murtha?
It is about time we send Ahmadinejad to talk with allah in person...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Friday that continued Israeli strikes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip could lead to an "explosion" in the Islamic world that would target Israel and its supporters in the West.
According to Muslim tradition, a warning must be issued. Perhaps a coincidence, perhaps not.
And everyone here in the USA is worried about the Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. Geez.
Disturbing ping
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Possibly a certain Mr. Barrett could facilitate that..
22 Aug is the date of primary elections in Alaska. That is probably why Iammadjohn chose that date.
And Saddam thought he was Nebuchadnezzar reincarnated but that didn't keep him from getting his head checked unceremoniously for lice.
What is disturbing is that it took our intel people sooooooo long to figure out what is turning the pedals of this guy's bicycle, especially since he has been spewing this stuff out all along. Within that interpretation, I'd be concerned about Aug 22 too, especially with the increase in military exercises by Iran.
Ahmadinejad is a former soccer player. It's known that soccer players experience some degree of brain injury from repeated blows to the head.
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I found this interesting 'ping'.
great minds and all that..........LOL
I may be a little slow this morning, but I thought Moses "only" got the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, not the whole Old Testament.
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August 22/23, 1996 was also the date of UBL's fatwa -
Declaration of War Against the United States.
Bin Laden signed it on 8/23 but it would have been the 22nd in this hemisphere.
Coming up on the 10 year anniversary of the fatwa.
USINT needs to read TM if they want to keep up. ;-)
Thanks Vel.
This is a bit more than disturbing. Too many "coincidences" of timing lately.
well, Nebuchadnezzar went out of his head for a while
also...no?
But Ahmadijehad would separate the ACLU lawyers
heads from their bodies, before he separated church from state.
A fact which the ACLU won't recognize.
The devil has a firm grip on that boy.
Good points.
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I believe there's more than one warning required. Is this the second warning or third?
Whoa, your comment's out of touch and off base...
Stinky should have an unfortunate accident.
LOL. The guy thinks that God wrote the OT ahead of the books after Exodus.
attack Israel at your own risk fella............
they ain't gonna shoot back with water pistols, LOL
My comment #29 was a joke on your tag...
Seems rather non-stop to me. It's hard to keep count.
Unfortunately, I don't think we use napalm anymore. It was deemed too horrific and inhumane by the "politically correct" crowd.
It is a hell of a note that we fight with our hands tied behind our backs. I think it would be very useful in rooting the Taliban out of caves in Afghanistan.
ON THE NET...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1659022/posts?page=357#357
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1659022/posts?page=358#358
Yeah, you're right. It is hard to keep track of how many threats are in each category. What a crazy world we live in...
Thinks for the reminder of the 1996 threat.
More disturbing is that some Freepers accept as fact the premise that our "intelligence community" is always clueless.
Make that, "MOST Freepers", and it's more accurate. Because AS WE ALL KNOW, only Spec Ops are REAL soldiers, right, FReepers?
Most of those, who condemn our MI, wouldn't qualify re personal IQ's and a thorough back ground check. So they sit back and arm chair quarterback people who do qualify.
Or they write the ROE...
Or they write bs articles like this one of course with the unknown/undisclosed MI expert.
I understand where the criticism comes from, more often than not we are not precisely, exactly right. We present the warfighter with an analysis which is an intelligent approximation or assessment of the information we can gather and disseminate in a time period that fits the mission's requirements. What many forget, yet they know it to be true and use it to explain their own operational difficulties, is that every battlefield is fluid and no mission goes according to plan. It's very easy to blame SNAFUs on bad intelligence, when in reality the intel was very good at first engagement, but bullets and bombs always force a change in plans.
The only time a mission is going exactly as planned is when you are about to be ambushed - Murphy's Law of War #2
A lot of people here just don't have a clue, doesn't surprise me.
When the time comes you can rest assured that both Napalm and Cluster Bombs will rain from the sky on our behalf. Political correctness has no hold on munitions, we observe the Geneva Convention and not one inch more.
I would pay to watch that.
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I wonder if Mr. Ahmad-madman-ijad walks around with a sign on his back that says "Nuke me now"?
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