911 hijackers still alive?

pipelineaudio said:
Any chance this is the same compound where all my missing socks seem to run off to?
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Well, all those people have to wear *something*. You don't want them running around sockless.


Oh, and you know that blue shirt you can't find? They wanted me to tell you "thanks."
 
pipelineaudio said:
Anyone know a good site that examines this?
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That examines what? The fact that someone could survive a plane crashing into a building? What your saying is that you think that happened but there were more important things to report on the news that day?

You might be confused because it may still not be clear exactly who the hijackers are, so somebody might say person X was a hijacker, and then he turns up in some foreign country saying, "hey, no I wasn't."
 
strathmeyer said:
You might be confused because it may still not be clear exactly who the hijackers are, so somebody might say person X was a hijacker, and then he turns up in some foreign country saying, "hey, no I wasn't."
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I think thats whats happening

The LC guys are making a BIG deal about at least 7 of the terrorists being alive. Perhaps they were just misidentified
 
A friend of mine was an ice cream salesman in Glasgow. Lot of Pakistanis run shops in Glasgow. Some of them aren't beyond the odd swindle. He would supply a fridge, for his company's ice cream , to Mohammed Islam. Next year, the shop closes briefly and reopens under the name Mohammed Islam. Friidge is full of rival company's ice cream. My mate goes to reclaim it, and is told that is property of Mohammed Islam. Yes, he says, but that's not you. -
Oh yes, I am Mohammed Islam. And he probably is. There are twelve of them in the immediate family.

It can be difficult identifying shop owners in Scotland. (Ask any Trading standards Officer). Identifying terrorists is, I imagine, nearly as tricky.
 
Soapy Sam said:
A friend of mine was an ice cream salesman in Glasgow. Lot of Pakistanis run shops in Glasgow. Some of them aren't beyond the odd swindle. He would supply a fridge, for his company's ice cream , to Mohammed Islam. Next year, the shop closes briefly and reopens under the name Mohammed Islam. Friidge is full of rival company's ice cream. My mate goes to reclaim it, and is told that is property of Mohammed Islam. Yes, he says, but that's not you. -
Oh yes, I am Mohammed Islam. And he probably is. There are twelve of them in the immediate family.

It can be difficult identifying shop owners in Scotland. (Ask any Trading standards Officer). Identifying terrorists is, I imagine, nearly as tricky.
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Especially since Arabs (and maybe Pakistsnis?) in general don't have last names as we understand them here.
 
gtc said:
Can you explain how that works?
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Arabs generally use only a first name. But you need to add other names so that you can be identified, I'll use Saddam Hussein as an example. In the Western world, you would assume that Hussein is the family name, but it is not. It is actually his father's first name. In fact, his entire name is Saddam Hussein al-Majid al-Tikriti, literally "Saddam, son of Hussein al-Majid, part of the al-Tikriti tribe". This is waaay too much for us westerners, so it becomes Saddam Hussein for our purposes. So Saddam is really his full name, the rest simply identifies which Saddam he is. So to call him "Mr. Hussein" would be incorrect, as it should simply be "Saddam".
 
WildCat said:
Arabs generally use only a first name. But you need to add other names so that you can be identified, I'll use Saddam Hussein as an example. In the Western world, you would assume that Hussein is the family name, but it is not. It is actually his father's first name. In fact, his entire name is Saddam Hussein al-Majid al-Tikriti, literally "Saddam, son of Hussein al-Majid, part of the al-Tikriti tribe". This is waaay too much for us westerners, so it becomes Saddam Hussein for our purposes. So Saddam is really his full name, the rest simply identifies which Saddam he is. So to call him "Mr. Hussein" would be incorrect, as it should simply be "Saddam".
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Note that in this context, "al-Tikriti" might also be translated as "from the town of Tikrit" (literally, "the Tikriter," as one might say "New Yorker" or "Londoner"). You find something similar in the case of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is from the town of Zarqa in Jordan.

Arabs don't just use patronyms as identifiers, by the way, but also filionyms (I suppose the word would be). "Abu Musab," to take the previous example, literally means "father of Musab," Musab being the guy's firstborn son. There's a certain amount of prestige attached to having fathered (or borne) a son, so the filionym is also an honorific (kunya), and often takes precedence over the patronym. Mahmoud Abbas, of the Palestinian Authority, is also known as "Abu Mazen"; while a number of prominent PLO types used fictional (or, more charitably, metaphorical) kunya as noms de guerre, "Abu Mazen" actually is a filionym, after Abbas' eldest son.

In deciphering Arab names, "bin" or "ibn" means "son of," "bint" means "daughter of" (the British slang term "bint" for "girl" is derived from the Arabic, and was introduced by soldiers who'd served in Mesopotamia), "abu" means "father of" and "umm" means "mother of."
 
I hear the Ay-rabs come jet fuel and high-speed impact resistant these days, so who knows?

....that's a joke, by the way. They're all vapor by now.
 
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