Ari Siletz

The September 11 attack on the World Trade Center was supposedly timed to coincide with the number 911 to symbolize a huge emergency. One may reasonably wonder if the date of Osama Bin Laden's killing was meant to convey a message. So I checked the Koran, chapter 51 and sure enough it is about getting your comeuppance.

Here are the first few lines:

I swear by the wind that scatters far and wide,

(more oaths and stuff)

What you are threatened with is most surely true,

And the judgment must most surely come about.

I swear by the heaven full of ways.

(more oaths and stuff)

They ask: When is the day of judgment?

It is the day on which they shall be tried at the fire.

Taste your persecution! this is what you would hasten!

But more likely, the number 51 is a reference to Area 51--the source of all conspiracty theories-- to suggest that we should look for more creative conspiracy theories. I haven't found a good numerical one yet, but here's a B grade theory involving the numbers 911 and 51:

Assigning each number to the corresponding letter (A=1, B=2,...) the number 9 (11)51 reads "IKEA." IKEA's head office is located in Sweden. To back up the claim of an IKEA connection. some people on the internet have noticed IKEA furniture in video shots of Obama's hideout. Still not convinced Osama is really alive and in Sweden? Then how about this very unusual Osama message from October 2004:

"Free people do not relinquish their security. This is contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. Let him tell us why we did not strike Sweden, for example."

Now we have the answer to that suggested question. 2+2!

By the way, the above is a photo of Osama in Sweden in 1971. I know, it looks sorta photoshopped, but that's probably becasue they colorized the black and white photo. There are a lot more clues in the song Pink Cadillac.

Now some folks say it's too big
And uses too much gas
Some folks say it's too old
And that it goes too fast
But my love is bigger than a Honda
It's bigger than a Subaru
Hey man there's only one thing
And one car that will do