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| Iranian president backs messianic cult |
| 2006-05-15 |
| THE key to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hardline policies may not be hidden in his revolutionary past, or in any of the nuclear facilities dispersed across Iran, but in a small farming village near the holy city of Qom. Here, in what was until only a few years ago a shabby local mosque, Iran's new radical Muslim leader has become the chief sponsor of a messianic cult whose massed followers pray each week for the end of the world as we know it. Since coming to power last year Mr Ahmadinejad has given a reported $US20 million ($26 million) and personal supervision to turning the tiny Jamkaran mosque into a massive complex of prayer halls, minarets, car parks and ablutions. Once completed, it will cater in comfort to the tens of thousands of worshippers who flock here every Tuesday night, hoping for the reappearance of the Mahdi or "Hidden Imam", Shiite Islam's equivalent of the Messiah. When Mr Ahmadinejad sent an 18-page letter to the White House last week lecturing the President, George Bush, on religion and morality, many questioned whether the Iranian President was a religious fanatic, a megalomaniac, or merely playing to an Islamic gallery. Jamkaran is a place to start looking for answers. Click link for more |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 Bearden is quite a bit overboard in his assessment. He presumes weapons systems developed by Russia (or rather by SU, as it were), that simply are not there or their results are, for the lack of a better word, capricious. Not mentioning that as the funding ended in early 90's, so did the research. I seriously doubt that any 'transfer' took place. That does not mean we should be complacent. We'll take some hits, almost certainly, but the question is how much the damage would influence our spirits and what responses we would be willing to employ. New weapon systems (based on parts of physics that are currently rather unexplored) may be a decisive factor in winning beyond a pyrrhic victory. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-05-15 21:30 |
| #2 Or NEWSMAX.com's LEV NAVROSOV article on Lt. Col. Thomas E. Bearden, US Army (retired), from whose book Lev summarizes Bearden's claim that "unless the USA engages in a national crash course" on super-nanoweapons, the USA has three (3) years before its total or complete destruction"!? Bearden > the USA is toast by Year 2009. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-05-15 03:23 |
| #1 Any relation to CHAVEZ's "THE FINAL HOURS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN EMPIRE IS AT HAND" remark ala GUARDIAN.UK. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-05-15 03:09 |