[Our man in washington]

Another poster on another thread (don’t have time to search) pointed out that the quotation was from one of the last messages from Mohammed telling his followers that he might not be around long.

That was me. Here's the post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865481/posts?page=18#18

[nmh]

To: Sub-Driver
Here’s one possibility. Here’s a paragraph from Muhammad’s last sermon:

Ye people! Listen to my words: I will deliver a message to you, for I know not whether, after this year, I shall ever be amongst you here again. O people! verily your blood, your property and your honor are sacred and inviolable until you appear before your Lord, as this day and this month are sacred for all. Verily you will meet your Lord and you will be held answerable for your actions. Have I not conveyed the message? O Allah! Be my witness. He who has any trust with him, should restore it to the person who deposited it with him. Beware, no one committing a crime is responsible for it but he himself. Neither the son is responsible for the crime of his father, nor the father responsible for the crime of his son.

Who knows what it means? Maybe Zawahiri is not well.

18 posted on 07/13/2007 10:32:24 AM PDT by Our man in washington

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865481/posts?page=18#18

Thanks for going to the trouble!

Something is going on ... .

[Philistone]

Thanks.

I’m thinking that it was either a message to the defenders of the Red Mosque or a sign that Zawahiri believes his time is up.