2001 September 6: Antoinette DiLorenzo, teacher of English as a second language to foreign students at New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn, in a class of Pakistani immigrants, led a class discussion about world events. She asked a student (his name withheld) peering out the third floor window toward lower Manhattan, “What are you looking at?” he made a casual remark about the World Trade Center not being there next week, which stuck in her mind. Note that the remark does not just state that the towers will be attacked, but quite specifically that they will disappear. The Muslim community across the world was aware of the possibility of a terrorist attack against major US targets. The plot was even the subject of street gossip in Cairo during August 2001. Even Islamic calendars (pictured) for the year 2001 depicting a plane crashing into lower Manhattan. If this plot or something like it were common currency across the Muslim world that foreign students in America even knew of the target and the approximate time of attack, are we to believe the most sophisticated and largest intelligence agencies in the world had no inkling?
Report: Calendar Showed Plane Crashing Near Manhattan
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Thursday, Sept. 27, 2001
A calendar which was printed in Egypt and for the month of September shows a crashing passenger plane with Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop — and which was printed in May, a full three months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America — has caused an uproar in the Dutch town of Almere, Netherlands, the newspaper De Telegraaf reported yesterday.
Islamic Calendar for Sept. 2001: Jet hitting lower Manhattan
The calendar was distributed at an Islamicschool long before the World Trade Center
attacks. Mayor Hans Ouwerkerk, who was alerted to the calendar's existence in the local Islamic school in the town of Almere, immediately notified the Dutch internal security
service (BVD) about the strange coincidence. The BVD is reportedly investigating the matter.
“I am supported by Allah, to die for Allah” was quoted on the calendar, the same words reportedly used by an EgyptAir pilot who allegedly crashed a jet in November of 1999.
The Almere Town Council has “urgently advised” the management of the Islamic School Foundation to “cooperate with the Dutch authorities and help determine the calendar's origin.”
Deputy Mayor Henk Smeeman said the distribution of such controversial Islamic-extremist fundamentalist propaganda material “cannot be tolerated in Almere. The Town Council is a strong supporter of maintaining good intercultural relationships with one another,” he said. Some of the calendar's other illustrations show a stone-throwing Palestinian demonstrator in front of the Al-Aksa mosque in Jerusalem, an Egyptian military assault during the
six-day war against Israel, and a futuristic image of a Palestinian “freeing” of Jerusalem.
The head of the Islamic school, Mrs. Dekker, allegedly had a large number of calendars in her possession from the end of May to the beginning of June, well-informed sources informed De Telegraaf. When confronted with the calendar images, she responded in a shocked, startled manner, asking “How did you get this” before shrouding herself in silence when further questioned by journalists.
De Telegraaf also reported today that Dutch authorities abruptly closed the major traffic arteries into Rotterdam and Amsterdam through four river tunnels — in immediate response to a highly detailed letter to the Dutch news agency ANP that described the exact time (8:10 a.m.) and the colors and types of vehicles that would have been used in a closely timed wave of suicide attacks at the height of rush hour in two of the world's busiest harbor cities.
Dutch police arrested a large number of individuals who had been identified by the anonymous tipster, who also warned that a great many other terrorist attacks would be carried out worldwide.
Collapsing these riverine tunnels would have meant the immediate closure of these busy international harbors, seriously disrupting international trade