Tuesday, September 11, 2007

The day began like any other...










It happened at 8:46 am. The clip begins at 8:31 am. Footage is from archive.org.

2 comments:

PJ said...

Hey Sergei...

what does that black flag with the gun on it say?

Sergei Andropov said...

Lá illáha illá'lláh wa Muḥammadan rasúlu'lláh. "There is no God but God and Muhammad is His prophet." It's the fundamental creed of Islam, called the Shahada. The black background associates the flag with jihad. The gun is a reference the Saudi flag, which has a sword in that location. Most al-Qaeda flags don't include it, but I have in order to make it clear that it is the flag of al-Qaeda and not the Black Standard, which was Muhammad's battle flag.