Hello,
Nostradamus is pretty good, but he wasn't perfect: the
world was supposed to end way back in 1986. Besides,
there are such things as self-fulfilling prophecies,
ala Neo, the Oracle and the broken vase in the Matrix,
right?
--- Leo Pascua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Are you guys familiar with Nostradamus?
>
> This is a quake from one of his predictions:
> "In the year of the new century and nine months,
> From the sky will come a great King of Terror...
> The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.
> Fire approaches the great new city..."
> 2001 is the first year of the new century and this
> is the 9th month. New
> York is located at the 41st degree Latitude.
> He also said that this will be the third World War
> and it would be bigger
> than the last two wars. I hope he is wrong, but
> judging from his
> predictions of Hitler, Napoleon, and Pearl
> Harbor....
>
> "In the city of YORK, there will be a great
> collapse, two twin brothers,
> torn apart by chaos, while the fortress fall, the
> great leader will succumb,
> the third big war will begin when the big city is
> burning. "
> - Nostradamus
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> NEW YORK (CNN) -- As Americans hold their collective
> breath waiting to hear
> how many people died in terrorist attacks on New
> York and the Pentagon in
> Washington, missiles were seen and explosions were
> heard in the capital city
> of Afghanistan. Huge flames shot into the air and
> could be seen in the
> night sky up to five to eight miles away in Kabul
> early Wednesday morning.
> Afghanistan is believed to be the home of Osama bin
> Laden, the suspected
> mastermind behind Tuesday's attacks that toppled the
> landmark twin towers of
> the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon. "In
> no way is the United
> States government connected to those explosions,"
> said Defense Secretary
> Donald Rumsfeld late Tuesday afternoon. Asked if bin
> Laden was a suspect,
> he said, "It's not the time for discussions like
> that."
> Other officials suggested the missile attacks were
> probably a continuation
> of the civil war in Afghanistan and perhaps were a
> response to the fatal
> attack on opposition leader Ahmad Shah Masood. There
> is little doubt in
> Washington about who was behind the terrorist
> attacks on U.S. soil. U.S.
> intelligence officials told CNN, "There are good
> indications that persons
> linked to Osama bin Laden may be responsible for
> these attacks." U.S.
> officials said that while the focus is on bin Laden,
> they had not ruled out
> other suspects. They also said they believe more
> threats exist. Pentagon
> sources told CNN that all U.S. military sites around
> the world have gone to
> ThreatCon Delta, which means that a terrorist attack
> has occurred or an
> attack at a specific location is likely. "We will
> expend every effort and
> devote all the necesary resources to bring the
> people responsible for these
> acts -- these crimes -- to justice," Attorney
> General John Ashcroft said
> Tuesday evening.
>
> President Bush spoke the nation from the White House
> Tuesday night about the
> attacks he called "a national tragedy." "Make no
> mistake: The United States
> will hunt down and punish those responsible for
> these cowardly acts," Bush
> said after during a stop earlier in the day at
> Barksdale AFB near
> Shreveport, Louisiana.
> American Airlines Flight 11, carrying 81 passengers
> and 11 crew members en
> route from Boston to Los Angeles, slammed into the
> north tower of the World
> Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m. The
> hijackers were armed
> with knives, Ashcroft said.
> About 15 minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175,
> also en route from
> Boston to Los Angeles, with 56 passengers and nine
> crew members aboard,
> crashed into the south tower. It is not yet known
> how many of the estimated
> 40,000 to 50,000 people who may have been in the
> World Trade Twin Towers
> were killed when the two planes exploded and
> eventually turned both
> 110-story structures into piles of rubble. ked how
> many people he believed
> were killed, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, "I
> don't think we want to
> speculate about that -- more than any of us can
> bear."
> Hours later, fire caused another building, 7 World
> Trade Center, to
> collapse. It had been burning since shortly after
> the planes stuck the Twin
> Towers. Other nearby buildings are ablaze in the
> area. There is no word on
> fatalities at the Pentagon, where part of the
> complex collapsed after a
> Boeing 757 jet plowed into it at 9:45 a.m. Witnesses
> said the plane hit what
> is known as the "Army Corridor."
> FBI sources said the aircraft was an American
> Airlines flight that had been
> hijacked after taking off from Washington Dulles
> International Airport bound
> for Los Angeles. At least 53 people were injured,
> some severely, in the
> attack on the Pentagon, where about 24,000 people
> work. All secretaries and
> military chiefs of the service branches are alive
> and have been accounted
> for, authorities said.
> A fourth aircraft, United Airlines Flight 93 from
> Newark, New Jersey, headed
> for San Francisco, crashed in a wooded area near
> Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
> Police said there were no survivors. There were 38
> passengers, five flight
> attendants and two pilots. "The plane is thoroughly
> disintegrated," Jim
> Marker of Somerset County's 911 Emergency Management
> Center told CNN. "There
> are no remains, no survivors.
> Senior FBI sources said, "There is no doubt the
> planes [all four] were
> hijacked." Intelligence sources told CNN there were
> indications of attempts
> to divert the United flight from Newark to crash at
> Camp David, Maryland,
> the presidential retreat. It is unclear how that
> plan may have been
> thwarted. U.S. military officials said none of the
> planes were shot down by
> U.S. aircraft.
> Federal Aviation officials said they were aware at
> the time the first plane
> crashed into the World Trade Center that a plane had
> been hijacked. They
> did not know that specific plane was involved.
> Callers from two of the other
> hijack planes called on cell phones to say their
> planes had been hijacked.
> James Kallstrom, the retired FBI agent who led the
> investigation into the
> explosive crash of TWA 800 in July 1996 that killed
> 230 people, said he
> believed the hijackers must have flown the planes
> into the buildings
> themselves.
> "I can't imagine any American pilot crashing an
> airplane into one of these
> buildings, even with a gun to the head. They
> wouldn't do that," said
> Kallstrom. "You've got people that not only are
> willing to give up their
> lives for a horrendously, in my view, stupid,
> cowardly act, but they are
> sophisticated enough to fly a modern jet plane." The
> U.S. military went on
> full alert. Two aircraft carriers left the Naval
> base in Norfolk, Virginia,
> in response to the attacks to provide upgraded air
> defense for New York and
> Washington.
> Officials in Washington said a "Continuation of
> Government" plan had been
> activated. The activation involves a fortified
> facility at Mount Weather,
> Virginia. There was no word whether any of the U.S.
> leadership or ranking
> military officers had been taken to the facility.
> The city of Washington
> declared a state of emergency.
> "The Pentagon is functioning. It will be in business
> tomorrow," Rumsfeld
> said. Members of Congress were quick to blame bin
> Laden, the Saudi
> millionaire blamed for bombings at two U.S.
> embassies in Africa. He is
> believed to be based in Afghanistan.
> "This looks like the signature of Osama bin Laden,"
> said Sen. Orrin Hatch,
>
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