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Was this just a coincidence?
Just always seemed to much of a coincidence of 9/11 & 911 being chosen.
The law of truly large numbers says that with a large enough sample many odd coincidences are likely to happen.
I say this because many other countries use different dating systems for example 9/11/2001 is dated 11/9/2001.
and yes, to the the whole of europe and the British Isles it seems pretty daft, because we put the day of the month first, as logic dictates.
Originally posted by iamAccnrh
Coincidence?
Yes
google Apophenia
/threadedit on 27-11-2010 by iamAccnrh because: Coincidink
Originally posted by thedman
reply to post by acrux
Nothing here
Most countries write date as day-month (11-9) where we use month-day format (9-11)
Original date for plot was for April-May, ringleader Atta postoned because though hijackers needed more training
was slipped to August then slipped again. Bin Laden was frantic in wondering why plot kept getting postponed
fearing discovery.
Tickets were purchased in August 2001 from travel agency in Totowa NJ and from internet account at William
Paterson University in Wayne
Hijackers from test flights determined traffic was lightest in middle of week so chose date their
September 11 was first week after Labor Day holiday - vacations over, schools in session, business travel light
Originally posted by cameraobscura
Also, how the 9-1-1 emergency telephone number in America was decided upon is subject to much speculation. To me it bears numerical correlation with the Jewish fast of Tisha B'Av. Suffice to say that it was introduced in 1968, the same year that construction for the WTC began, and was advertised as "nine-eleven" before it was changed to "nine-one-one" due to confusion. Further, it is intriguing again that August 26, 1987 President Reagan and the FCC proclaimed September 11 to be "Emergency Number Day," which it was until the terrorist attacks of 2001, when it was changed to "Patriot Day."
Originally posted by acrux
I was wondering of the coincidence or not of September 11 as called 9/11 & the emegency phone number for America being 911.
01. Was this just a coincidence?
02. Was this day chosen to teach America the fear of a real emergency from the "alledged" terrorist point of view?
03. Was this day chosen by the "alledged" TPTB to instill a date that could be easily remembered due to it being so close to an already well known number 911 phone number?
04. Was this day chosen to be an ironical slap in the face of the general populace?
Just always seemed to much of a coincidence of 9/11 & 911 being chosen.
I say this because many other countries use different dating systems for example 9/11/2001 is dated 11/9/2001.
Anyone ever thought this as too much of an ironical coincidence?
Originally posted by angus1745
I think there is no way in hell that whoever planned the atrocity could have predicted that people would end up calling the event after the date it happened (not even including the year)
I think the whole referring to the event as 9/11 couldnt have been predicted and probably origionated from TV news reports around the time, a kind of buzz word for the event that stuck and spread. To the degree that even UK media now reffers to the event as 9/11