Pat Robertson said Jan. 2 the United States will face a massive terrorist attack in late 2007.
The 76-year-old religious broadcaster made his prediction during a broadcast of The 700 Club, his news-and-commentary show. Robertson said that, during a recent time of prayer, God revealed to him an attack on the United States would result in “mass killing.”
“I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear,” Robertson said. “The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that.”
An AP story quoted Robertson as saying major cities will be affected by the attack.
This is not his first prediction of national calamity. In May 2006, he claimed American coastlines would be “lashed by storms” and the Pacific Northwest hit by “something as bad as a tsunami.” No such disasters occurred that year.