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Pat Robertson predicts 'mass killing'

2007-06-06 10:52:40

03/01/07

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - In what has become an annual tradition of

prognostications, religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday God has told

him that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in "mass killing"

late in 2007.

"I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during his

news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting

Network. "The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something

like that."

Robertson said God told him during a recent prayer retreat that major cities

and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should

take place sometime after September.

Robertson said God also told him that the U.S. only feigns friendship with

Israel and that U.S. policies are pushing Israel toward "national suicide."

Robertson suggested in January 2006 that God punished then-Israeli Prime

Minister

Ariel Sharon with a stroke for ceding Israeli-controlled land to the

Palestinians.

The broadcaster predicted in January 2004 that

President Bush would easily win re-election. Bush won 51 percent of the vote

that fall, beating Democratic Sen.

John Kerry of Massachusetts.

In 2005, Robertson predicted that Bush would have victory after victory in his

second term. He said

Social Security reform proposals would be approved and Bush would nominate

conservative judges to federal courts.

Lawmakers confirmed Bush's 2005 nominations of John Roberts and

Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. But the president's Social Security

initiative was stalled.

"I have a relatively good track record," he said. "Sometimes I miss."

In May, Robertson said God told him that storms and possibly a tsunami were to

crash into America's coastline in 2006. Even though the U.S. was not hit with a

tsunami, Robertson on Tuesday cited last spring's heavy rains and flooding in

New England as partly fulfilling the prediction.