An obscure fact
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 (9/11) were the first major geopolitical event in the age of Internet. Internet made it possible for conspiracy theories to spread more easily. And 9/11 proved to be a treasure trove if you have a suspicious mind. Nowadays 9/11 conspiracy theories are a bit outdated like those on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Most people moved on and crazier theories emerged. That obscured a remarkable fact. No other event in history has ever been riddled with so many peculiar coincidences.
The perpetrators were either Illuminati, Jews or Freemasons, at least that is what conspiracy theorists want us to believe. But perhaps they simply weren’t paranoid enough. Osama Bin Laden thought he was executing the will of God. And he may have been right. What may strike you about these coincidences is that many of them could have happened accidentally but that the combination of these incidents might be too improbable to be just coincidence, and beyond the competence of possible deep state conspirators.
The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989. Hence, the hallmark events of the end of communism and the war on terror were on 11/9 and 9/11 (American notation). This is significant as the cold war as well as the war on terror were amongst the most important geopolitical developments after World War II. That the Berlin Wall would fall in 1989 was already predicted ten years earlier. That may not be a coincidence either.
Emergency
The US emergency services telephone number is 911 while the date 11 September is more commonly known as 9/11. The emergency services played a major role on this day. Starting with 11 September, the remainder of the year lasts 112 days. And 112 is the emergency telephone number of the European Union.
On 11 September 2002, exactly one year after the 9/11 attacks, the winning numbers drawn in the New York State Lottery were 9-1-1.1 Because there were two such draws, the odds of randomly drawing these numbers was around one in 500.
The total number of FDNY personnel killed was 343,2 which is 7 x 7 x 7. On 7 July 2005 (7/7/7 considering that 2+0+0+5=7), the terrorist attacks in London took place.
The flight number that has seen the most accidents is 191. Five planes with that flight number have crashed. The best known accident of this series is the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 on 25 May 1979.3 The digits of 191 are the same as those of 911. This made a blogger refrain from using JetBlue Flight 191. Five years later JetBlue Flight 191 had to make an emergency landing.3
Popular culture
References to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center appeared before they happened. This is not as remarkable as it may seem. The destruction of the World Trade Center was a common theme in popular culture as the building was an iconic symbol representing capitalism. Terrorists already attacked the World Trade Center in 1993 so it was not far-fetched to think that it might happen again. Despite that, some of these references are quite spooky.
There is a reference to the date 11 September 2001 in the 1999 film The Matrix. About 17 minutes into the film, a file folder is shown containing an image of the passport of the main character Neo. The expiry date of the passport is 11 September 2001.5 This is remarkable because the coincidences surrounding the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 demonstrate that this universe could be a virtual reality like The Matrix.
The 2000 computer game Deus Ex had the Twin Towers missing in the New York skyline because of memory constraints. In the game’s fiction the towers were destroyed by terrorists. An interesting coincidence is the name of the game referencing to God coming out of nowhere to interfere with the plot (Deus Ex Magina). The initials of the main character are JC, the same as Jesus Christ. Somewhere in the game, JC wakes up in a secret mansion of the Illuminati. If JC chooses the right options, he will discover the code to a blast door. Behind it is an artificial intelligence called Morpheus.6
In July 2001 the band I Am the World Trade Center released the album Out of the Loop. The 11th track on their album is titled September.7 That makes an advance reference to 11 September combined with World Trade Center in 2001.
The rap duo The Coup had put out an advance graphic of their late 2001 album Party Music months before 9/11. It depicted explosions in the Twin Towers near the points hit by the planes. The detonation device held by MC Boots Riley is labelled Covert Labs. Pam the Funkstress was holding conductor’s batons.5
The album Live Scenes From New York from the rock group Dream Theater was released on 11 September 2001. The album cover shows a burning Big Apple with the city of New York in the background.4 Issuing an album named Live Scenes From New York featuring a burning apple representing New York on 11 September 2001 is an eerie coincidence.
A 1997 episode of The Simpsons about a trip to New York showed a guidebook with the number nine, followed by the Twin Towers, making a reference to 9/11.4
In March 2001 Fox TV network in the United States aired a pilot episode of The Lone Gunmen about a plan by rogue elements in the United States government to hijack a jet aircraft by remote control and crash it into the World Trade Center in order to justify an increase on military spending and a war on terror.5
Early 2001 the simulator game Trade Center Defender came out. Players had to gun down planes that were heading towards the Twin Towers.4
Predictions
Linda and Terry Jamison, known as The Psychic Twins, predicted in 1999 that there would be terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and federal buildings in South Carolina or Georgia in 2002.8 The prediction itself was of dubious quality but it was made on 2 November (11/2 American notation) while 112 is the European emergency services telephone number. It is also remarkable that Linda and Terry Jamison were identical twins as the Twin Towers were identical too.
The BBC was more accurate by predicting the destruction of the Twin Towers as well as building seven, even though the BBC never intended to make these predictions. A BBC Scotland article from 5 April 2001 was headlined ‘Twin towers to be demolished’.9 The twin towers referred to the two chimneys at Kincardine Power Station, but the choice of words is remarkable to say the least.
On 11 September 2001 a British television reporter for BBC reported that World Trade Center building seven had collapsed. His words were accompanied by subtitles. Building seven was still standing and it collapsed 26 minutes after the reported news.10 The BBC ‘predicted’ both the collapse of building seven and the destruction of the Twin Towers, which makes a pair of closely related peculiar coincidences.
New World Order
On 11 September 1990, exactly 11 years before 11 September 2001, President George Bush Sr. held a speech that is remarkable for a few reasons. An important theme was Saddam Hussein as the first Gulf War was about to begin.11 The attacks of 11 September 2001 have been used to start the Second Gulf War against Iraq against Saddam Hussein by another President named George Bush.
George Bush Sr. stated that the developments presented an opportunity for a New World Order of cooperation between nations to emerge.11 One year later, on 11 September 1991, he made similar statements. These dates both being 11 September is remarkable as is the recurring conflict between Saddam Hussein and two Presidents named George Bush. It is another pair of closely related peculiar coincidences.
In September 2000 a group of neoconservatives published a study named Rebuilding America’s Defences. It stated that it would be difficult to rebuild the military unless some catastrophic event like a new Pearl Harbor would occur.12
A few months before 11 September 2001, the plans for a secret operation named Operation Northwoods were declassified. These plans were drafted by America’s top military leaders in the early 1960s. They included hijacking planes and orchestrating violent terrorism inside U.S. cities to provoke a war with Cuba.13
On 11 September 2001 the North American Aerospace Defense Command was conducting a military exercise named Global Guardian. One of the scenarios being simulated was a hijacking of planes.14
On 11 September 2001 the official Bin Ladin family’s website domain http://www.saudi-binladin-group.com expired.15 On the same day a defence contractor, the Carlyle Group, was hosting a business conference in Washington DC. One of Osama Bin Laden’s brothers was an honoured guest. The Bush and Bin Laden families were both involved in the Carlyle Group. Members of the Bin Laden family were secretly flown out of the United States shortly after the attacks when air travel was still shut down.16
Jesus Christ’s birthdate
Most likely 25 December wasn’t Christ’s birthdate. The reason why Christmas is celebrated on 25 December probably is that Christmas became a Christian substitute for the pagan rites surrounding the winter solstice.
Most theologians believe that Jesus was born between 6 BC and 4 BC. In 1978 Ernest Martin claimed to have calculated the exact date of Jesus Christ’s birth based on the celestial charts for that era. The date he came up with was 11 September 3 BC.17
Numerology, 11 and 11:11
Bloggers on the Internet noticed coincidences surrounding the attacks of 11 September 2001 that they believed to be spooky. A number of places, items, and persons had names consisting of eleven letters. Emails have circulated, urging us to be scared because Afghanistan and George W. Bush have eleven letters like some other words that can be linked to the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. These things are really cool if you’re a numerologist, otherwise you may find it nonsense.
The US emergency telephone number 911 can be compressed to 11 as 9 + 1 + 1 = 11. The European emergency telephone number is 112 is also intriguing. First 112 = 56 + 56, which can been seen as a reference to 11:11 as 5 + 6 = 11. Furthermore, 2 = 1 + 1. So 112 can be seen as a reference to 11:11 in this way too. Also 112 + 911 = 1023, which is 1111111111 binary. Many countries have emergency telephone number 999 and 112 + 999 = 1111.
Two out of three flights hitting their target on 11 September 2001 were from American Airlines.18 American Airlines uses the characters AA for its flight codes. When the characters of the flight codes are transformed to digits, using the scheme A=1, B=2, C=3, they both resolve to 11, making an 11:11 reference. Both American Airlines flights had a flight number that is a multiple of 11 (11 and 77), making another 11:11 reference.
The Twin Towers both had 110 floors,19 which is an 11:11 reference. Both towers had 99 elevators18 (according to several sources; Wikipedia states it is 95), which is another 11:11 reference. After 99 days of burning, NYC declared the WTC fires were extinguished. This was on 19 December 2001.20
The Twin Towers standing side by side looked like the number 11. Adding the digits of each Airplane’s flight numbers yields: Flight #11 = 11, Flight #93 = 12 (9 + 3 = 12), Flight #175 = 13 (1 + 7 + 5 = 13) and Flight #77 = 14 ( 7 + 7 = 14). Flight AA11 had 11 crew members, consisting of 2 pilots and 9 flight attendants. The numbers of passengers on the planes including the hijackers were 92, 65, 64 and 44,18 while 9 + 2 = 11, 6 + 5 = 11 and 44 is a multiple of 11, while 4 + 4 = 8, 8 * 8 = 64 and 64 – 44 = 9 + 11.
On 29 November 2011 American Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.21 29 November 2011 can be read as 29/11/11 or 29/11/2011, while 2 + 9 = 11 and 20 = 9 + 11. Filing for Chapter 11 on this date is remarkable because American Airlines flights were used for the terrorist attacks and because AA in the flight code can be translated to 11.
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Featured image: Plumes of smoke billow from the World Trade Center after the September 11 attacks. Michael Foran (11 September 2001). Public Domain.
Other images: What is Al-Qaeda? Vice Magazine (1994). Close up of Neo’s passport in The Matrix. Warner Bros (1999). Cover for Party Music. The Coup (2001). Cover for Live Scenes from New York. Dream Theater (2001). Trade Center Defender (2001). [copyright info]
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7. Out of the Loop (I Am the World Trade Center album). Wikipedia. [link]
8. Linda and Terry Jamison. Wikipedia. [link]
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11. Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis and the Federal Budget Deficit. George Bush (11 September 1990) [link]
12. Project for the New American Century. Wikipedia. [link]
13. U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba. David Ruppe. ABC News (2001). [link]
14. Global Guardian. Wikipedia. [link]
15. Date with Destiny? Howard Altman. Philadelphia City Paper (2001).
16. The Carlyle Group: C for capitalism. Economist (2003). [link]
17. Ernest L. Martin – Wikipedia. [link]
18. September 11 attacks. Wikipedia. [link]
19. World Trade Center elevator artifacts. The National Museum Of American History. [link]
20. Ground Zero Fire Extinguished. Abc News (2001). [link]
21. American Airlines files for Chapter 11 protection. BBC (2011). [link]
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