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Say the odds are a million to one that when a person has a dream of an airplane crash, there is an airplane crash the next day. With 6 billion people having an average of 250 dream themes each per night (Hines, 50, though I don't think I've ever had more than 5 or 6 dream themes a night), there should be about 30,000 to 1.5 million people a day who have dreams that seem clairvoyant.
A coincidence is a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances which have no apparent causal connection with each other
A think tank chose this number for psychological effect is almost without doubt, no reason holds Osama Bin Laden would choose this day.
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)
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.
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
Why should you imagine that he would be incapable of planning a little pyschological warfare against the American nation?
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)
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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
originally posted by: thegimprider
Please name one reason Osama would choose September 11 over any other date? 911 link offers terrorists goals no advantage.
.Then, on Aug. 29, the phone rang in Binalshibh's Hamburg apartment at three in the morning.
It was Atta with an important, but cryptic message: "He said to me, 'One of my friends related a riddle to me and I cannot solve it, and I called you so that you can solve it for me.'" Binalshibh is heard saying.
Atta goes, "Two sticks, a dash and a cake with a stick down."
Binalshibh said, "I said to him, 'Is this the riddle? You wake me from a deep sleep to tell me this riddle? Two sticks and I do not know what?'"
Eventually, Fouda says, Binalshibh realized what Atta meant. So he says to him, "OK. Tell your friend, he has nothing to worry about. It's such a sweet riddle."
Binalshibh explained it: "The two sticks represent the number 11, then the dash, and then the cake from which a stick dangles represents number nine. Thus, the picture becomes complete: the 11th of September."
Binalshibh left Hamburg on Wednesday, Sept. 5, for Pakistan. From there, he sent a messenger into Afghanistan with news for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Osama bin Laden: Tuesday, Sept. 11, would be the day.
originally posted by: firerescue
Somehow have ignored my point that rest of world uses different date format (DAY MONTH) than America.
In addition it was not Bin Laden who chose the date - that was determined by what flights left airports and times