Apparently Iran's President Ahmadinejad has promised an "apocalyptic surprise" for the US and the West on August 22. This has not been discussed in the West, but appears to be widely anticipated by Muslims in the Middle East. They must have something in mind. Maybe a nuclear weapon test. Or widespread terrorists attacks by Hezbollah cells in Western countries. In either event, I hope the US has the military on alert, particularly in Iraq, and has a lot of stuff aimed at Iran.

August 22 is an important date for Muslims for some reason. It turns out that Sept 11 is also an important date for them. That is when John Sobieski defeated them at Vienna in 1683, and booted them out of Europe, at least for the next 300 years. As recently stated by the Ahmadinejad, they are mad at Britain for setting up the Palestine protectorate in 1917.