I never heard about it. I was in my car in traffic and heard three distinct chimes. At first I thought they were church bells but there was no church and it didn't come from outside. They sounded alot like the bell thing you here in a plane. It was just very weird and I thought perhaps someone on here knew something about them, perhaps they have a biblical reference.
Osama bin Laden casts himself as Muslim elder statesman
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1101/p01s03-wosc.html
...excerpt...
WASHINGTON AND ISLAMABAD – The Bush administration has rarely voiced his name. Kerry's campaign has uttered it as often as possible.
But Osama bin Laden spoke for himself Friday in his first videotaped comments in more than two years. "Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or Al Qaeda," he said to Americans. "Your security is in your own hands."
Intelligence experts were struck by Mr. bin Laden's tone and by his appearance: No guerrilla garb, no rifle, no direct threats, or religious rhetoric of the past. Bin Laden was wearing a traditional Arab white thobe and princely, gold-trimmed outer garment. With the fall of Saddam Hussein and the marginalization of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, "part of what bin Laden is trying to do is fill the vacuum of leadership in the Muslim world," says Bruce Hoffman, a RAND Corp. expert on terrorism. "Part of his game is to portray himself as a statesman."
Bin Laden's reappearance serves to remind Americans not only of his threat - but of his elusiveness three years after Sept. 11. Why is he so hard to find?
One Pakistani military commander now says the Al Qaeda leader has fled the mountainous areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan. There's speculation he may be hiding in Kashmir or in the cities of Pakistan - where several key top lieutenants have been caught in the past year. But most experts say that the US and Pakistan have no idea where he's holed up.
While bin Laden has been forced into hiding, effectively prevented from using cellphones, satellite phones, or the Internet, and many of his top echelon have been captured or killed, Al Qaeda's network continues to evolve and grow - as does bin Laden's legacy and mystique in the Muslim world.
Seat belt not connected?
(Just kidding! Please, weird sense of humor).
Today's reading's in church were rather unsettling regarding 'do not be deceived in the last days...'
I do not remember that reading in the past although I have been 'churched' for 50 years now.