I think the Barbary Pirates used some thing similar in their phrasing too.
What might be interesting about this letter as an opportunity:
1. Calling for an emergency session of the Security Council.
2. Making the observation about this (a declaration of war placed in the middle of a jelly sandwich of a letter).
3. Asking for them to clarify exactly that on the floor of the UN.
4. Countering with a call for our own declaration of war within the Congress and on the floor of the UN.
Whackjob went too far. Time to put the big hand of the clock on 1 minute to midnight.
Right- this does harken back to the Barbary Pirates..convert, pay tribute or else....the scary difference is this fool thinks HE is the Morpheous that will bring their Neo...Islamic Eschatology.