[Thinkin' Gal]

and most disturbing, what appears to be an image in the lower right corner perhaps depicting a stadium with fire or flames coming from its center.

I do not follow sports, but do know that the Super Bowl Sunday is shortly after the beginning of the year. How intriguing, that when I Googled it, I discovered that it is scheduled for just the date I suspected... February 1.

Furthermore, a search of "super bowl" and "back breaking" generated quite a few hits, in reference to touchdowns.

If the target isn't the superbowl, perhaps it's a metaphor for a success... a big score... a back-breaking touchdown. Looking down the links, I noticed that in game XXXI (1987), their was a super bowl record of a 99 yard touchdown. Can't go higher than that, can you, except maybe from Mars? The point is, allah has 99 names. Maybe Al Qaeda likes football-allah analogies. Of course, this is a long thread, so surely someone covered these points already. Sorry for any duplicate ideas here. Carry on...

[Thinkin' Gal]

Site: Reliant Stadium, Houston Texas
Date: Feb. 1, 2004
Game time: 5 p.m. CST

Bush country

[Thinkin' Gal]

typo. should be 1997, not 1987. I hate it when that happens.

[FairOpinion]

A couple of good informative articles (with more info & articles in the posts):

Report: Al Qaeda Targeting Oceanliners
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1047753/posts


and

Gadhafi (Libya)armed al-Qaeda with germ bombs (bioterror): report

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1047755/posts

[JustPiper]

See, that is why your the 'thinkin' gal" -smiles- your idea is a good one. I hated 2-1 in 88' and 2-1 & 2-2 will always be hateful days for me , as will the Superbowl of that year, I would not doubt it could be a metaphor but also don't doubt that showing the picture of a stadium may very well be the Super Bowl, it all fits.

[LayoutGuru2]