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[Ginny]

I wasn't going to blog about it, but I ended up writing about it anyway. I may have to go and help with relief efforts--we'll see.

[Steve]

Baldilocks,

I am going to share something with you that I came across about 2 years ago and I interpreted about a year ago. I've shared it with a few others. It's my little theory. Check it out:

This is a poem read to Saddam in early December 2001. The interpretation of the poem is seen below. It further puts the emphasis on the Durban Conference on Racism as the motive. The United Nations Durban conference on Racism was held a little less than a year into the "second intifada" that Saddam was heavily involved in. The attempt at the conference by the Islamic faction was to reinstate wording that Israel was a racist state. Those statements were erased from United Nations documents when Saddam surrendered after the first Gulf War. In September of 2001 it had been almost exacxtly 10 years since those statements were removed from United Nations documents. They were originally put there in the 1970s while Kurt Valdheim, a Nazis, was Secretary General of the United Nations. Remember that Yassir Arafat was in favor at the United Nations like never before and that it was Arafat's uncle that was the Nazi affiliated Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who had lived for several years in Berlin during World War II. It was when this September 2001 Durban Racism conference broke up unsatisfactorily that the hijackers took their positions for their suicide missions. People attending the conference and returning to New York then witnessed this event. I was, in those days, following this conference and the second intifada and when those planes hit the towers that Durban confernece was the first hing to enter my mind as it naturally should.

I have sent my interpretation around to a few well known people months ago. I heard back from one saying he thought it was an "interesting analysis".

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http://cshink.com/saddam_and_bin_laden.htm

On December 3, 2001, a poem was recited by Sheikh Ali Bin Shallal, head of the al-Sharji tribes, at a meeting with the tribal chiefs of Basra and Maysan and Saddam Hussein. It is highly likely this will startle you, here is the text:

We love you as much as a bird loves its nest when it rains.
Your gold is pure, the gold of others is copper whose engravings
are false.

But fatigue and injustice are over. They remain engraved letters.
You triumphed over injustice; you will not be blamed should you beat them.

You are fastened with a bullet-belt for the one fooled by his troops.
You are the guard, you are the guard, Saddam, and we are the watchful eyes.

Just order us to proceed and repel the attacks,
just order us to proceed and repel the attacks
[line chanted repeatedly by the audience].

From inside America, how five planes flew.
Such a mishap never happened in the past!
And nothing similar will happen.
Six thousand infidels died.
Bin Ladin did not do it; the luck of the president [Saddam] did it.

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Copper = The American penny.

Engraving = Abraham Linclon.

False = At the Durban Racism conference it was mentioned before and during that America should be more like Abraham Lincoln again, because, as they saw, if he were alive he would be just about rubber stamping all that comes out of that conference. Colin Powell did not go and I don't blame him and I think that he acted more like Abraham Lincoln would have acted.

"fooled by his troops" = Possibility that there were people ("troops")
within the United States intelligence community or government involved. This would also mean that George Bush was not then involved as his September 12, 2001 reaction on TV made it apparent.

"five planes flew" = Proof of prior knowledge based on the actual 5 plane plan. There were some would-be team of hijackers picked up in Texas as they were taking a train from St. Louis to Texas. They didn't want to be in St. Louis but were taken there when all the planes were grounded. They had gotten "cold feet", as one article put it, and couldn't complete their mission. I could see maybe erroring in the Poem on the side of their only having been 3 planes that flew because of Flight 93 not making it to its target. But 5 planes? Easily explained by the hijacker cell arrested that didn't complete its mission.

luck = A very curious word to use. Islamists do not believe in luck. It is sacreligious to believe in luck. They especially do not believe in luck when in comes to terror events that occur in their favor. It was "Allah's will", as they see it, and you do not attribute such things to luck, and especially not in front of Saddam Hussein. This means the poem was, of course, pre-approved and the word "luck" was put in by, or OK'd by, the regime itself.

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So you see we have motive and prior knowledge and maybe even an indication of espionage in the US government. You also have evidence that the regime itself fashioned the poem and approved the word "luck" so as not to openly admit their guilt in the operation.

I am not saying that this is definitely the way it is but, like I said, I sent it to a well known author and he thought it was "interesting". I'm never going to get around to writing a book anyway so there it is.