August 22, 2006

the western powers that be have given iran a deadline for an answer to their proposal to appease the iranians to cease their rogue nuclear ambitions... that deadline was june 29th. iran countered with an august 22nd date and has since offered up rhetoric about being afraid of traveling to europe because of assassination attempts..

so, i'm out browsing my daily reading sites and i run across a headline.. the headline reads: Apocalyptic signals from Iran worry U.S. intelligence

some chatter about the us intelligence community being concerned with why 8/22 seemed to be arbitrarily chosen by the iranian government.. well, seeing as it takes a subscription to find out what they were going to say, i went to the internet to figure out what the heck 8/22/06 is on the islamic calendar..

so, this is obviously something worth looking up !!! *grin*

well, come to find out, 8/22/06 is the anniversary of the day that mohammed ascended to heaven according to islamic tradition.. so, now, we've put the pieces of the puzzle together. western intelligence has concern that iran is planning some sort of event timed with mohammed's magic carpet ride. and to boot, you now have this out of iran today:

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.

Again, Ahmadinejad questioned Israel's right to exist. "This is a fake regime ... it won't be able to survive. I think the only way (forward) is that those who created it (the West) take it away themselves," the president told a rally in Teheran in support of Palestinians.

it will be interesting to see what the summer brings.. what a great time to be alive!