2007-06-06 10:52:40
Pat Robertson predicts 'mass killing'
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.
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"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.