"{He is the one who has let free the two bodies of flowing water, one sweet and palatable, and the other salty and bitter. And He has made between them a barrier and a forbidding partition.} (Qur'an 25:53)"
Interesting that the bitter/sweet allusion you found is juxtaposed to "water". Another translation of that verse starts by saying: "It was He who sent the two seas rolling . . ."
"the water"/"the sea"
The 1/19 (9/11 "re-versed") UBL tape that also talks about being "trapped" in that passage about the "butcher of Vietnam" also calls Bush "the butcher of Washington", which to me, signaled DC as a/the prime target. From their perspective, it probably gnaws on them every day seeing the White House and Congress still there, just like it probably ate at them for eight years every time they saw video of the NYC skyline with the WTC still standing. The "sweet vs bitter" allusion may not only be significant in and of itself, but in its surrounding context in both tapes.
This was something *very* interesting on your google link (and there were also some similarities in language between the UBL/Zawahiri tapes and Ahmadinejad's speeches earlier this year). And when you think about it, that makes absolute sense.
http://www.gopvideo.com/mahmoud_ahmadinejad_un_speech_09192006.html
Full Text, Speech of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, 61st General Assembly United Nations 9/19/2006, video
*Updated 9/20/2006*
Full Text of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Address before the 61st General Assembly of the United Nations
(snip)
" . . . It is for this reason that we state:
Sustainable peace and tranquility in the world can only be attained through justice, spirituality, ethics, compassion and respect for human dignity. All nations and states are entitled to peace, progress and security. We are all members of the international community and we are all entitled to insist on the creation of a climate of compassion, love and justice.
All members of the United Nations are affected by both the bitter and the sweet events and developments in today`s world.
(from an earlier post):
("the sea" will swallow New York and then the Mahdi will destroy the Vatican)
MUSLIM APOCALYPTIC WRITERS INDICATE FUTURE STRIKES ON NEW YORK AND VATICAN
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/984315/posts
(primary link doesn't work but is all taken from papers by Dr. David Cook of Rice University)
If, to make a self-fulfilling prophecy, they cannot literally make "the sea" swallow NYC (like the men apprehended looking to blow up one of the tunnels recently), then they could make an attack from the sea swallow NYC.
Sheesh. More coffee. Meant to post this on the thread.
Sorry for the duplicate to you.
>>>This was something *very* interesting on your google link (and there were also some similarities in language between the UBL/Zawahiri tapes and Ahmadinejad's speeches earlier this year). And when you think about it, that makes absolute sense.
Heh, even 'more' interesting considering the link I posted was my google search and not the one I intended to post.
This was my intended link:
Bitter uses of honey in Bin Laden's network
http://www.iol.co.za/general/newsview.php?art_id=qw100339848123B221&click_id=3&set_id=1
But now with your connection to Ahmadinejad using the same verbage, it makes you wonder if they all have the same speechwiter.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=Denmark
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Strychnine found in Danish reservoir
UPI ^ | 10-06-2006 | UPI
Posted on 10/06/2006 2:27:39 PM PDT by IntelliQuark
GREVE, Denmark, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Inspectors discovered strychnine in the water supply of a Danish town during a routine check.
Investigators believe that someone dumped rat poison in one of the wells that provides water for Greve Municipality outside Copenhagen, the Copenhagen Post reported. The well's Plexiglass cover was smashed open.
A vial labeled rat poison found in the bottom of the well has been traced to the pharmacy where it originated, investigators told the Post.
"The episode worries me, because you think, what'll it be next," Erik Jurlander, a manager at Greve Waterworks told the newspaper Politiken. "We have coded locks for the waterworks, a sea of alarms and 24-hour security guards who are immediately notified if one of the alarms sounds."
While the waterworks says that the strychnine was not at a dangerous level, the reservoir has been closed. Copenhagen is temporarily supplying Greve with water.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=Denmark
http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=CartoonJihad
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1715231/posts
"Danish TV shows cartoons mocking Prophet Mohammad (breaking...)"
reuters ^ | 10/6/06 | reuters
Posted on 10/06/2006 6:51:01 PM PDT by voletti
COPENHAGEN (Reuters)