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from http://www.snopes.com/rumors/coincidence.asp:
Origins: In December 2005, this compilation e-mail that combined
three earlier pieces about eerie coincidences relating to the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America began appearing in
our incoming mail, often prefaced by the forwarders as "Seriously
spooky!," "Kind of freaky," "Weirding me out," and the like.
We've written about each of its three elements before, but since a
number of folks will have their first encounter with any of the
claims being advanced via exposure to this omnibus e-mail, we've
gathered information about each into this one central
article.
While it would appear there were a seemingly unusual number of
elevens arising from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on
America, it must be kept in mind that it is but human nature to
search for patterns even where none exist. We attempt to impose a
gestalt on randomness because chaos is impossible to comprehend,
hence our fascination with recurrent themes. We feel something of
great import is going on if a particular number comes up time and
again, and we are unsettled by it.
Our article about the many elevens supposedly connected with the
9/11 attacks explains that it is not at all unusual for clumps of
the same number to appear at any given moment. Those bothered by
all the elevens might consider that the number of letters in
"Washington," "World Trade Center" and "Twin Towers" don't add up
to eleven.
Ramsin Yuseb (The terrorist who threatened to destroy the Twin
Towers in 1993) has 11 letters.
The last name of the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center
bombing has been transliterated from Arabic in a number of ways,
including Yousef, Yusuf, and Youssef; his first name is generally
rendered as 'Ramzi'; and officials believe his birth name was
actually Abdul Basit Karim. Only by selecting particular
combinations of these transliterated names (such as "Ramsin Yuseb"
or "Ramsi Yousef") does one arrive at an 11-letter result.
The compilation e-mail also claims that "The tragedy of Madrid
happened 911 days after the Twin Towers incident," which wasn't the
case in that the Madrid bombing took place 912 days after the 9/11
attacks. However, it would be fair to say 911 days separated the
September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. and the March 11, 2004,
train bombings in Madrid, Spain. We provide a far more detailed
explanation in our article about this numerical oddity.
Regarding the purported Quran verse about the awakening of a
fearsome eagle, our piece on that subject explains there is no such
entry in that holy book, let alone one occuring in Chapter 9, Verse
11.
As we note in our article about the result produced by rendering
"Q33 NY" in Microsoft's Wingdings font, there was no flight "Q33NY"
involved in the terrorist attack on New York City the two flights
used to assault the Twin Towers were American Airlines Flight 11
and United Airlines Flight 175.
