WEIRD 9/11 FACTS

[gunnerbunny]

GOT THIS FROM FRIENDSTER...UP TO YOU IF YOU WILL BELEIVE

Message: 1) New York City has 11
letters

2) Afghanistan has 11 letters.

3) Ramsin Yuseb (The terrorist who threatened to
destroy the Twin
Towers in 1993) has 11 letters.

4) George W Bush has 11 letters.

This could be a mere coincidence, but this gets
more
interesting:

1) New York is the 11th state.

2) The first plane crashing against the Twin
Towers
was flight number
11.

3) Flight 11 was carrying 92 passengers. 9 + 2 =
11

4) Flight 77 which also hit Twin Towers, was
carrying
65 passengers.
6+5 = 11

5) The tragedy was on September 11, or 9/11 as it
is
now known. 9 + 1+ 1 = 11

6) The date is equal to the US emergency services
telephone number 911.
9 + 1 + 1 = 11.

Sheer coincidence..?! Read on and make up your
own mind:

1) The total number of victims inside all the hi-
jacked
planes was 254. >2 + 5 + 4 = 11.

2) September 11 is day number 254 of the
calendar
year.
Again 2 + 5 + 4 = 11.

3) The Madrid bombing took place on 3/11/2004. 3
+
1 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 11.

4) The tragedy of Madrid happened 911 days after
the Twin Towers
incident.


>Now this is where things get totally eerie:
>
>The most recognised symbol for the US, after the
Stars & Stripes, is the Eagle. The following verse
is
taken from the Quran, the Islamic

>holy book:
>"For it is written that a son of Arabia would
awaken a
fearsome Eagle. he wrath of the Eagle would be
felt
throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of
the
people trembled in despair still more rejoiced: for
the
wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah and
there was peace."
>
>That verse is number 9.11 of the Quran.
>
>Still uncovinced about all of this..?! Try this and
see
how you feel afterwards, it made my hair stand on
end:
>
>Open Microsoft Word and do the following:
>
>1. Type in capitals Q33 NY. This is the flight
number
of the first
>plane to hit one of the Twin Towers.
>
>2. Highlight the Q33 NY.
>
>3. Change the font size to 48.
>
>4. Change the actual font to the WINGDINGS


AKA:
Q33 NY

[9th]

you missed something big... The BIG 11...

[SANDMAN]

Myth busters to the rescue....

www.snopes.com/rumors/coincidence.asp

Origins: In December 2005, this compilation e-mail that combined three earlier pieces about eerie coincidences relating to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America began appearing in our incoming mail, often prefaced by the forwarders as "Seriously spooky!," "Kind of freaky," "Weirding me out," and the like.

We've written about each of its three elements before, but since a number of folks will have their first encounter with any of the claims being advanced via exposure to this omnibus e-mail, we've gathered information about each into this one central
article.

While it would appear there were a seemingly unusual number of elevens arising from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America, it must be kept in mind that it is but human nature to search for patterns even where none exist. We attempt to impose a gestalt on randomness because chaos is impossible to comprehend, hence our fascination with recurrent themes. We feel something of great import is going on if a particular number comes up time and again, and we are unsettled by it.

Our article about the many elevens supposedly connected with the 9/11 attacks explains that it is not at all unusual for clumps of the same number to appear at any given moment. Those bothered by all the elevens might consider that the number of letters in "Washington," "World Trade Center" and "Twin Towers" don't add up to eleven.
Ramsin Yuseb (The terrorist who threatened to destroy the Twin Towers in 1993) has 11 letters.
The last name of the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing has been transliterated from Arabic in a number of ways, including Yousef, Yusuf, and Youssef; his first name is generally rendered as 'Ramzi'; and officials believe his birth name was actually Abdul Basit Karim. Only by selecting particular combinations of these transliterated names (such as "Ramsin Yuseb" or "Ramsi Yousef") does one arrive at an 11-letter result.

The compilation e-mail also claims that "The tragedy of Madrid happened 911 days after the Twin Towers incident," which wasn't the case in that the Madrid bombing took place 912 days after the 9/11 attacks. However, it would be fair to say 911 days separated the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. and the March 11, 2004, train bombings in Madrid, Spain. We provide a far more detailed explanation in our article about this numerical oddity.

Regarding the purported Quran verse about the awakening of a fearsome eagle, our piece on that subject explains there is no such entry in that holy book, let alone one occuring in Chapter 9, Verse 11.

As we note in our article about the result produced by rendering "Q33 NY" in Microsoft's Wingdings font, there was no flight "Q33NY" involved in the terrorist attack on New York City — the two flights used to assault the Twin Towers were American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175.

And here is another article dedicated to the coincidence of "elevens":

www.snopes.com/rumors/elevens.asp

Origins: It is but human nature to search for patterns even where none exist. We attempt to impose a gestalt on randomness because chaos is difficult to comprehend, hence our fascination with recurrent themes. We feel something of great import is going on if a particular number comes up time and again, and we are unsettled by
it.

And yet, it's all randomness. That is not to say that at times any number plucked from the air will not appear more often than is the norm because such clumpings are only an expected part of the process of random distribution. Even though a flipped coin comes up heads five hundred times out of a thousand, it does not follow that each 'head' occurrence is immediately followed by a 'tails' — inevitably during a run of a thousand trials, there will be moments wherein the 'tails' tally varies significantly from the 'heads' count. Clumping can and does occur, and random numbers seemingly appear more often at various moments in time. Over the long run, of course, everything evens out. But at the moment when 13 comes up four times in a row on a roulette wheel, or 11 seems to jump off the page at one, it all seems so very eerie.

And in the example cited at the head of this page, the repeated occurrence of 11 isn't even really an amazing string of multiple random occurrences but rather a contrived and manufactured method of producing a desired result. One simply chooses only the elements that fit the intended pattern and ignores the rest (e.g., many of the other significant phrases associated with the 9/11 attacks on America, such as "World Trade Center," "American Airlines," "United Airlines," or "Washington, D.C." aren't spelled using eleven letters, so they aren't included), manipulates the elements however necessary (e.g., the digits in "9/11" are added to produce a result of eleven, but the digits in "111" are left alone because the result of a similar addition would be three, not eleven), and glosses over inconvenient details (e.g., neither Iraq nor Iran has 119 as its telephone country code; American Airlines Flight 77 carried 64 people, not 65).

Another way of looking at the seemingly impressive array of elevens showcased in the widely circulated e-mail is the following, in which the same events are shaken out to produce an equally impressive array of twos, demonstrating that patterns can be concocted for just about any set of elements if one tries hard enough:
Date of the attack: 11/9; 11 - 9 = 2
Date of the attack: September 11 = 1 + 1 = 2
Year of the attack: 2001 = 2 + (0*0*1) = 2 + 0 = 2
September 11th is the 254th day of the year: 2 + 5 + 4 = 11 = 1 + 1 = 2
Telephone country code for Afghanistan: 93 9 * 3 = 27; 93 - 27 = 56 = 5 + 6 = 11 = 1 + 1 = 2
World Trade Center: 2 towers
World Trade Center attacked by: 2 airplanes
Each airplane: 2 wings
The first plane to hit the towers was Flight 11: 1 + 1 = 2
New York = 2 words
The Pentagon = 2 words
Ramzi Yousef = 2 words
Or, as Internet wag Dave Pawson expressed it:
Oh my God! How worried should I be? There are 11 letters in the name "David Pawson!" I'm going into hiding NOW. See you in a few weeks.

Wait a sec ... just realized "YOU CAN'T HIDE" also has 11 letters! What am I gonna do? Help me!!! The terrorists are after me! ME! I can't believe it!

Oh crap, there must be someplace on the planet Earth I could hide! But no ..."PLANET EARTH" has 11 letters, too!

Maybe Nostradamus can help me. But dare I trust him? There are 11 letters in "NOSTRADAMUS."

I know, the Red Cross can help. No they can't... 11 letters in "THE RED CROSS," can't trust them.

I would rely on self defense, but "SELF DEFENSE" has 11 letters in it, too! Can someone help?

Anyone? If so, send me email. No, don't... "SEND ME EMAIL" has 11 letters....

Will this never end? I'm going insane! "GOING INSANE???" Eleven letters!!

Nooooooooooo!!!!!! I guess I'll die alone, even though "I'LL DIE ALONE" has 11 letters....

Oh my God, I just realized that America is doomed! Our Independence Day is July 4th ... 7/4 ... 7+4=11!

- Dave

PS. "IT'S BULL$#!+" has 11 letters also.

[gunnerbunny]

apil na pod nato ang 7/11 na store HEHEHEHEH!

[chris]

hahaha pilosopo gyud ning mga myth busters dah.. nawala nuon ang scary effect atong email hehehe

[D7K]

Isn't 9 11 the birthdate of Marcos? hehehe

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GBB Club (Pistoleros de Davao) / farmasita

11 members! goooood! tournment na!

[9th]

11th of November is a day after my birthday...

and November is 11th month of the year...oh my!

hehehehe!

[SANDMAN]

And I have Eleven toes!!! Wahahahaha!!! At least on the dance floor according to my dance partners... hehehehe!!!

[rjc670]

Hala! i was born on the 11th of january 1983 so 11/01/1983 (dd/mm/yyyy) 11=01+1+9=11=8+3=11! WhatthePack?!!! <---- 11 letters din yun!

[jpopc]

annyversary ng SPEEDYNAMICS september 11,

The team was Fouded September 11 2001.

Well i actualy did my research..

opened up Quran and found out that there is no verse 9.11 heheh what a hoax

[THOR]

bahala na unsa pasabot sa inyo ang 11,malas ba o dili basta sa akoa swerte kaayo ang 11 kay naka daug ko ana sa last two ug 70,000php dats y may m4ris ako ug katong 1st wik sa april 35,000php.................hooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!

[9th]

that's the real HIT!...swerte diay! :-)

[THOR]

mas kuyaw siguro kung ang petsa sa imong bday kay 6th month of the year......6th day of the month and.......on the 6th hour ka gi anak................. lang...............