naturalplastic wrote:
However Bin Ladin did seem to have obsession with the FALL (not the earlier rise) of the Ottoman Empire. He did use the cryptic refrain "the outrages of 80 years ago" in his messages to the media after 9-11.
2001 minus 70 = 1931 - the year oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia, by an American mining expert brought in to look for water, and the discovery pricked the interest of an American oil company. That was a big turning point for that region of the world. (According to this pdf:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~twod/oil ... ollack.pdf )
I'm just guessing at the meaning of "the outrages of 80 years ago" but it could be that was what he meant. Or maybe British interests pulling out earlier, which would be closer to 80 years. (Sorry, I am having trouble editing this post.)
As for the 9/11 date I have no idea, but it seems at the time I heard something that it related to, that it was an anniversary of something. But I don't recall. ETA: Some have related it to 911 emergency, but the terrorists would have notated it as 11/9, and there was a message sent to them, apparently a secret code for the date to attack, "two sticks, a dash and a cake with a stick down" to indicate 11-9.
ETA: Oh, I see what you mean about the 80 years - 1921, The Cairo Conference: http://www.cliohistory.org/thomas-lawrence/cairo/
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