[Velveeta]

It is possible this is an Italy reference as that has come up before. But the primary meaning of UBL is that he is giving a pre-emptive justification for the severity of the attacks by tying America and Israel together since Lebanon when Sharon led the Israeli Army in attempting to expel Arafat and Hezbollah was given birth.

I agree that UBL was giving us the history behind his jihad. Remember though, that before the Bali bombing, he mentioned paradise in a way that it was a clue to the target of the Paradise Hotel. Something about UBL specifically pointing out the 6th Fleet stopped me in my tracks. Then with some digging, it was even more disconcerting to find that the 6th fleet had moved to Naples 'recently'.

No doubt UBL wants to hit Italy too, he's made that quite clear. Hopefully, there's no connection between the 6th Fleet as a possible 'keyword' in his message. I've been wrong plenty of times in my guesses on this thread. I hope I'm wrong this time too! :-)

[callmejoe]

"Remember though, that before the Bali bombing, he mentioned paradise in a way that it was a clue to the target of the Paradise Hotel. Something about UBL specifically pointing out the 6th Fleet stopped me in my tracks."

Very good point.