OPINION: When advertising a product or service or delivering a message, sermon, seminar, etc.; the rule of thumb is to clearly mention your product, service, main message at least 6 times. If if is a very brief presentation; 3 times will do.
However, because it is TGIF and it's always interesting to think out of the box; here's a link:
http://www.cryptonomicon.net/msh/squeak/msh-scc.1.cs
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As for the graphic, it's a fire. Basic. That's the point of that graphic.
As for the message, IN MY OPINION, it's probably a go signal for an attack somewhere in the world.
As for the 9/11 graphics; that's called pumping up the jihad base and get ready to do it again.
I could be wrong about all of this.
I hope I am.
End of my opinion.
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Thanks to CallMeJoe for the ping to this post.
Note: The following post is a quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614188/posts?page=322#322
An Arabic translator said that the caption on the screen in the Zawahiri tape last night read "the sixth war".
(from post 135)
"A few things from UBL's last statement leave me puzzled as well. First, he mentions 9/11...six times. I haven't the foggiest notion if that means anything, just that it seems strange."
Didn't catch that. Maybe if you count the year of the attack as "year 1" it means six years have passed - - not full years, but all or parts of them? (2001-2002-2003-2004-2005-2006) Or it could mean something more (who, what, where, when), but I'd be guessing without any real idea what it might mean (if anything). Also, the 9/11 plot began 6 yrs earlier (Bojinka 1995). So it is not so far-fetched to believe that something underway now was hatched years ago.
One striking coincidence related to "six"is in the Discovery-Times UBL documentary from a couple years ago that has been running this weekend. It shows at the very end the image of the wall map we discussed a couple years ago (the one crudely drawn in what looks like crayon with the fuse-lit bomb on the Canadian border forming the words "The Destruction of America" in Arabic). Seven of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were at that late 1999 Kandahar meeting with UBL (taped for posterity as a AQ promotional video).
The map behind them is only visible for a second or two, and it never pans down to the southernmost states, but from what is seen on the screen, DC is shaded solid green, but not labeled. . .
Also, past history makes this not seem so incredible as it might sound to some. One of the videotapes UBL made prior to the 1998 African embassy bombings had him sitting in front of a world map, and over his shoulder was the horn of Africa. Maybe the 1999 map image with the six states dealt with a follow-on operation to 9/11 that was disrupted in the weeks of late September and October 2001. But I am not in a position to assume that. . .
Also . . .
In his video, Zawahiri specifically mentioned the late 1999 Kandahar meeting.
In the late 1999 Kandahar video, the fuse-lit (nuclear?) bomb on the wall map spells "The Destruction of America". There is a very good reason why Zawahiri last night in his latest tape referenced this meeting.
To emphasize the point, the images in the background of last night's video had the key leaders at that Kandahar meeting (Atef and Atta) each behind one of his shoulders, and the explosive flames of the WTC strike (not a wide shot but a narrow focus on the flames) in the center.
http://www.lauramansfield.com/zawahiri_072706.rm (link to Zawahiri video)
This is *not* coincidence.
http://counterterrorismblog.org/SITE%20Institute%20-%207-27-06%20-%20Zawahiri%20Video%20Speech%20Regarding%20Lebanon%20and%20Gaza%207-06.pdf
A Video Speech from Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri Regarding the Events in Lebanon
and Gaza – 7/27/2006
(snip)
" . . . About a year before the two raids of New York and Washington DC the leader, Abu-Hafs (may Allah have mercy on his soul), gave a lecture to a group of trainees about Palestine and the Muslims’ conditions in Qandahar. At the end of the lecture the hero, Muhammad Attah (may Allah have mercy on his soul) stood up and asked the leader with seriousness and enthusiasm “what is the way to defeat the attack on Palestine?” and America knows very well the rest of the story."
I was just going to ping you.....
http://cbs2.com/topstories/topstories_story_208200456.html
Dilligence is in order- something is coming up... here's some traffic I ran across in the blogosphere:
My money is on August 22nd the day Iran is to give the world its answer on the overly generous nuke package. Rockets Brain is reporting on Robert Spencer's: Iran's Day of Terror?
Farid Ghadry, the president of the Reform Party of Syria, has offered a provocative explanation for this delay. He asserts that the Supreme National Security Council of Iran chose the August 22 date “for a very precise reason. August 21, 2006 (Rajab 27, 1427) is known in the Islamic calendar as the Night of the Sira’a and Miira’aj, the night Prophet Mohammed (saas) ascended to heaven from the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on a Bourak (Half animal, half man), while a great light lit-up the night sky, and visited Heaven and Hell also Beit al-Saada and Beit al-Shaqaa (House of Happiness and House of Misery) and then descended back to Mecca.…”
Read it all at JihadWatch
This morning in FrontPage I discuss the August 22 deadline that Iran's Thug-In-Chief has given for responding to the West's jizya offer (news links in the original):
Here is a link to Joel Richardson's 'Will Islam Be Our Future' that will help explaining Ahmedinejad's fascination with the Mahdi and the Islamic End Times and how it is intertwined with Revelation.
I agree with your opinion.
"GO signal"
"As for the graphic, it's a fire. Basic. That's the point of that graphic."
Agreed. But most jihadi images show the WTC burning in its "full glory" from a wide perspective so you can see the towering nature of the buildings. The background was positioned in such a way that almost the only thing you can see is the enormous flames and smoke coming out of one side of one tower (and you can hardly see the tower). It focused exclusively on the fire and smoke. It was different from most of the 9/11 images.
"As for the message, IN MY OPINION, it's probably a go signal for an attack somewhere in the world."
Absolutely.
"As for the 9/11 graphics; that's called pumping up the jihad base and get ready to do it again."
Yes. But the choice of Atef (Abu Hafs) and (an unshaven) Atta as the two faces positioned behind each shoulder of Zawahiri, and then going the extra mile in directly referencing the two in the speech with reference to the Kandahar meeting, is incredibly significant.
Every single frame of the jihadi video of that late 1999 Kandahar training meeting should be reexamined. There is something "special" about that meeting.
The goal is to roll a 6, 5 and 4 in these three rolls.
Yet another ship "rolled" per today's news - it appears a shipload of Mazdas may be the object of this "roll."