September 8th, 2006

I was on snopes.com the other day -- pulled up some interesting factoids and myths about 9/11.. One of them was the rumor that the Madrid Train bombings happened exactly 911 days from 9/11.. It turns out that March 11th, 2004 is exactly 911 days from September 11th, 2001..

So, I thought: "hm, when would the next 911 days be after March 11th??"



That date is September 8th, 2006..


Okay, so being a numbers guy I sometimes am (okay, I cheated and used this calculator to figure it out...) I decided to go back into history, during or around the time of March 15th, 1999..

Some interesting tidbits of March 15th, 1999:

The Taliban and Afghan groups announce a "lasting peace.."

Bush announces an exploratory committee into his Presidential ambitions..


Time Magazine already considers Bush to be the "man to beat" in 2000...


But then there was this little nugget that made me shift around in my chair this morning.. In the Congressional Report: Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 On page 168 of the text (page 220 of the pdf file) states: "In a written response, the FBI took issue with the contention that the FBI was not treating Al-Qa'ida as a serious threat in San Diego, citing an internal document dated March 15, 1999 which identified: Usama Bin Ladin as the number one priority of the US Intelligence Community."

Want to go back further?? 911 days previously: September 15, 1996.. "On September 15, 1999, former US Senators Gary Hart and Warren Rudman appeared at the National Press Club in Washington DC to present "New World Coming" the first of three reports on the outlook for US national security during the next quarter century."

On that same day the Downing Report was released was given to President Clinton and Congress regarding the Protection of US Forces Deployed Abroad in lieu of the attack of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia.. (The USS Cole was later attacked October 12, 2000..)

I realize that virtually every fact, number, instance can be interpreted any number of different ways.. I further realize it all could be a matter of incredible coincidence..

I just find it interesting..