Hey Knak - here is an edited version of the posts:
Sorry i left you off the original To:
To: JustPiper; All
Translation and analysis
Greetings.
Thanks for sending this. It's a on-peage religious flyer ("A Journey without a Return")
Akin to Christian evangelicals' exhortation.admonition that "your ticket to heaven/paradise awaits you if you read God's book (in this case, al-Quran) and (follow the Sunnah) do good things in this life, etc....."
Drawing in upper left corner is generic Islamic symbolism = curved roof of mosque and flanked by two minaret towers.
Regards,
3,321 posted on 08/08/2004 11:12:22 AM PDT by Bobibutu
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Thanks for this. It's still a sobering translation in light of the use of the airplane drawing and reference to "a journey without a return".
3,323 posted on 08/08/2004 11:22:30 AM PDT by liberallyconservative
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"It's still a sobering translation in light of the use of the airplane drawing and reference to "a journey without a return"."
I agree. BTW the guy who looked at it has many years in the ME training their police and CI types.
3,324 posted on 08/08/2004 11:28:36 AM PDT by Bobibutu
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Please pass along our "thanks" for offering us this insight.
3,327 posted on 08/08/2004 11:34:31 AM PDT by liberallyconservative
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"curved roof of mosque and flanked by two minaret towers."
Huh?
All of the minarets I have ever seen have been pointed not square
3,329 posted on 08/08/2004 11:44:03 AM PDT by Selene
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Follow-up
Greetings again.
The diagram might suggest an aircraft strike against the Olympics, but the text is overall pretty bland.
That said, however, at this point, I would not discount anything about possible hits against the Olympics.
The security arrangements by the Greek government are shoddy and wobbly. Since, as I understand, the "airspace region" there is tightly controlled and monitored, my bet would be on a vehicle-borne IED (gas truck, fuel tanker bomb and the like) attack against the more-accessible athletes' housing areas, not the stadia and other venues of the events.
Regards,
3,330 posted on 08/08/2004 11:47:37 AM PDT by Bobibutu
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"All of the minarets I have ever seen have been pointed not square"
Yeah - me too.
"Drawing in upper left corner is generic Islamic symbolism = curved roof of mosque and flanked by two minaret towers."
As he said ... it is a "generic Islamic symbolism".
And as this is a religious propaganda flyer it seems to me good marketing on the author of the flyers part. i.e., rule 1. Get prospects attention before delivering your message.
As aircraft and buildings in the same graphic are in the collective consciousness of the majority of the worlds muslims (and ours) - what a great attention grabber. Not to mention the play on words "journey without a return". Great marketing attention getter.
As for his take on the building - I will go with his read - because it was his business as a professional. ";^)
3,333 posted on 08/08/2004 12:04:49 PM PDT by Bobibutu