Our prescience may have been premature

Crusaders surrounded by Saladin's army, October 2, 1187 (Second Crusade), etching by Gustave Dore (left) and "Little Boy" mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, August 6, 1945, first published here.

"Of course the IDEAL date for the Mother of All Terrorist Acts would be October 2," we wrote in the spring of 2004, recalling that Muslim Ur-hero Saladin recaptured Jerusalem on October 2, 1187, after 88 years of Crusader rule. At the time of our post, Thomas Lifson of The American Thinker wrote "I only hope that the CIA and Department of Homeland Security are paying attention to Sisu."  Our prescience may have been premature (think of how long Barry Goldwater had to wait for his ideas to take hold), but it looks like the chatter is ramping up, and this October could bring the big one (Ramadan this year runs from October 4 through November 2, God willing). Here are highlights of the story "Report Warns of Terrorists' 'Great Ramadan Offensive" from CNS News:

Al Qaeda's plans for a series of spectacular terrorist strikes in October, targeting American interests as well as U.S. allies in Europe and the Middle East, are the subject of a non-public report issued by terrorism experts this week.

Terrorist leaders may also have taken the devastation wrought by hurricane Katrina as a symbol that God is pleased with their plans to launch the "Great Ramadan Offensive," according to the GIS [Global Information System] report.

Widespread anticipation throughout the Muslim world of the Great Ramadan Offensive was being picked up by intelligence analysts in August and then was reinforced by a slew of theological statements -- all buttressing what the GIS report calls 'a forthcoming, well-coordinated global onslaught.'

Ain't we got fun?  We ourselves have never bought into anyone's claims of God's being on one or another man's -- it's always a man, isn't it? -- side. Can you say all about me? Still, she-man Hillary may be fixing to make herself one of God's own:

2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was better organized to deal with disasters like Hurricane Katrina while her husband was president -- an approach, she said, that was "rejected" by President Bush.

What we want to know is, how did Hillary vote when the Congress called for subsuming FEMA under Homeland Security? However she voted, her current grandstanding is transparently trying to fool the little people into believing she "cares" about them more than the Republicans do. As with "God is on my side," condescension never worked for us.

Comments

[Jerry Cadick]

Don`t mean to be picky, but are you sure that is Hiroshima A-bomb cloud. My military history studies pointed out that the photo B-29 following Enola Gay took pics but NONE turned out. The only pictures of the mushroom cloud in existence were taken from a handheld camera by a crewman and from looking at them it is obvious how they were taken. That film certainly cannot be the picture you displayed which is from the ground a long way away.
Maybe a checky-check testo-testo is in order?

[Sissy Willis]

You're probably right about my picture's not being of Hiroshima's mushroom cloud, Jerry . . . I did find this photo of "Little Boy" identified as "About one hour after the bombing. Picture taken by U.S. bomber 80 km away over the Seto Inland Sea":

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Japan/Hirosh.html

The photo -- third on page --resembles but is not identical to the one I used (which, unfortunately, I could not seem to find again via Google).

Thanks for the new info. One can never have too many "checky-check testo-testos." :)

[CoolBlue]

What we want to know is, how did Hillary vote when the Congress called for subsuming FEMA under Homeland Security?

She voted for it, of course.

The Senate precursor to the final bill that was passed (S. 2452) was introduced by Joe Lieberman and also included FEMA in DHS.

Max Cleland, Dick Durbin, and Harry Reid were all co-sponsors.