September 11th, A Historical Turning Point

“911, 911, 911” It’s been seven years, and it’s amazing to think of how many times each of us has heard, “911” or “September 11th”? How many people still happen to notice 9:11 on their clocks? How many tens or hundreds of millions of people have seen that hole in New York City, or the one in a Pennsylvania field? We all want to forget some of that day, but we all know there are people and lessons to remember. Meanwhile the referencing continues unabated, and in a heated political season we’re going to hear a lot more about that date than in non-political years.

…but September 11th wasn’t just an awful day seven years ago. It’s a historical date that interestingly enough proves that the past is prologue. Religion, Liberty, and American history all collide on that fateful date again and again throughout history.

Written in 1981, 20 years prior to the 2001 attacks, a book called “The Birth of Christ Recalculated”. The author, Dr. Ernest L. Martin, claims to have calculated the exact date of Jesus Christ’s birth based on the celestial charts for that era. The date of Christ’s birth, based on the famous Star of Bethlehem, is calculated to be September 11, 3 B.C…

There is another significant religious event occurring about 2000 years later on September 11, 1999. According to Hebrew Scriptures September 11, 1999 was the 6,000th anniversary of Adam’s creation, and year 1 on the Hebrew calendar.

1609 the explorer Henry Hudson sailed into New York harbor and discovers Manhattan Island and the Hudson River.

1772, about 300 Indians and 50 British soldiers began the siege of Fort Henry ending on September 11, 1782. link

1776 After the fall of New York to the British, a Peace Conference was held between General Howe and three prominent representatives of the Continental Congress – Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Edward Rutledge. After taking the Americans key city, Howe thought he was entitled to a peace settlement. The Americans, having declared independence in July, considered separation from England as non-negotiable. The conference of Sept. 11, 1776, ended and the war continued for seven years.
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1777 The British defeat the Americans, led by George Washington, at the Battle of Brandywine Creek in the American War of Independence. The battle is regarded as the first where Americans carried the American Flag (Old Glory) to battle.

1922 – The post WWI British Mandate of Palestine begins.

1941 construction officially begins at the Pentagon.

1972 The troubled Munich Olympic Games end, and the world witnesses the beginnings of terrorism. Eleven Israelis are killed by terrorists.

1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter, President Sadat of Egypt, and Prime Minister Begin of Israel met at Camp David and agreed on a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt and a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.

1990 New World Order speech
“We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, — a new world order — can emerge: a new era — freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony. A hundred generations have searched for this elusive path to peace, while a thousand wars raged across the span of human endeavor. Today that new world is struggling to be born, a world quite different from the one we’ve known. A world where the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle. A world in which nations recognize the shared responsibility for freedom and justice. A world where the strong respect the rights of the weak.”-President George Bush Sr.
From the moment this speech is given until his death, the United States is effectively at war with Saddam Hussein’s regime. link

1996 While the invasion of Kuwait and Iraq ended five years earlier, the cease-fire agreement was broken even before being ratified by the UN. Since the end of Operation Desert Storm, a low level war continued with Saddam’s regime. Iraqi gunners fire an SA-6 missile at two U.S. F-16s over northern Iraq but miss. A fighter and helicopter briefly violate the southern no-fly zone.

1996 Backed by Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban militia conquered the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. This city serves as his base of operations and is friendly to the Al Queda network until at least 2008.

2001 A Predator unmanned aerial vehicle is shot down by Saddam Hussein’s regime over Iraq. It was unarmed and on a UN-authorized surveillance mission monitoring the southern no-fly zone.

2001 Al Queda hijacks 4 American passenger planes, flies two into the World Trade Center, and 1 into the Pentagon. The last is crashed by the passengers’ attempt to retake the plane. 10,000’s are wounded, and almost 3000 people killed. The attacks were authorized in “Late 1998/early 1999” by Osama Bin Laden, but they were planned by Khalid Sheik Mohammed (captured in March 2003). The authorization was done in response to America’s Operation Desert Fox; air strikes against Iraq (“We say it loud and clear that we will retaliate for what is happening to the sons of our nation in Iraq. For the crimes committed by the US against our Islamic nation will not pass without punishment.”-AQ #2 man & strategic planner, Dr Ayman al Zawahiri 12/18/98). According to the 911 Commission, Osama Bin Laden authorized these attacks and many more in response to: 1) the continuing American war on Iraq, 2) the presence of American forces in Saudi Arabia (forces which were there to wage war on Iraq), and 3) the US support for Israel which many Muslim extremists claimed was the real reason for the continuing US presence in the Middle East.

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