For sure. I'm imagining jihad101 class drills: When you hear UBL repeat something 6 times, that means....aaack, what?
6 hits in 6 cities (great recall on that map, Joe!) of the "Great Satan" on 6/6/06 would be quite a statement. June 6 is also a Tuesday and June 6, 1944 was "D-Day".
June 6, 1982: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
June 6, 1968 RFK dies.
So this would reassure them that if they heard their bunkie from boot camp got picked up, they would have no more idea of any unexecuted operation as they had no information on 9/11 before it happened.
That sounds like a reasonable explanation, thanks.
(1/19/06 was an "open-faced sandwich"), but everything to this point has been in the present tense.
FOFL on the open-faced sandwich. Thanks for going back and checking on the tenses though. Details like that are important to UBL.
and being "martyrs", no longer "follow" in the present tense.
Also would mean that he is addressing them as "living martyrs" ("dead men walking") and indicates imminence.
Yep, soon.
Pinging you here, Selene.
Your 6 dates were impressive, do you recall that in the past, several years ago, they would let us find a date and then make the attack 2 to 4 days later...
It could be that the attack/killing of Zarqawi, threw a change to their plans.
Will they wait for a new leader? or go with the old plans?