Maybe they've got a thing about "11"

As the recursive wife observed this morning while we were discussing the devastation in Madrid (covered everywhere, but I noted it here, here, and here -- for different N.A'n perspectives), and focus turns to Al-Qaeda -- or Basque separatists, or others [way to narrow the field there, intell community ed.]:

New York was September 11th; Madrid was March 11th. Maybe they've got a thing for the 11th.

She's got a point.

So, I wonder whether anyone has checked any historic, anthropological, cultural, linguistic, etc. significance to "11". I also wonder, if this little notionette were to gain any kind of broad support, whether the world will hole itself up behind locked doors from the evening of the 10th to dawn of the 12th? The pattern suggests June or December for the next one IF it's in fact Al-Qaeda.

Just a thought.

Posted by Grayson at March 12, 2004 08:08 AM