Did Nostradamus Really Predict New York Attack

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Did Nostradamus really predict New York attack.

By Geert De Clercq

SINGAPORE, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Internet chat rooms are abuzz with talk that 16th century French astrologer Nostradamus forecast the attack on the World Trade Center in New York.

Thousands of people have received e-mails containing this prophecy, often with a second part forecasting that the attack on the twin towers will mark the beginning of World War III.

Several versions are doing the rounds. This is one of them:

“In the year of the new century and nine months

From the sky will come a great King of Terror

The sky will burn at forty-five degrees

Fire approaches the new city.”

The text corresponds roughly to a verse in Nostradamus’s Century (section) Six, Quatrain 97. Several books on Nostradamus have speculated that this quatrain’s first line refers to September 2001, the ninth month in the first year of the new century, while the 45 degrees is interpreted as the latitude of the city of New York.

But New York lies just below 41 degrees latitude and Nostradamus’s verse does not mention a great war, contrary to what several e-mails say. In many e-mails, the verse comes with a second part, which seems harder to link to Nostradamus:

“In the city of York there will be a great collapse

Two twin brothers torn apart by chaos

While the fortress falls the great leader will succumb

Third big war will begin when the big city is burning.”

HOAXSTRADAMUS.

“(This second quatrain) is NOT by Nostradamus,” read a statement on www.nostradamus-repository.org, a Web site for Nostradamus study.

Hoax or not, various versions of the verse are being forwarded by the thousands every day.

“Initially, I was really sceptical, but I went to the web to look up something on (Nostradamus). Some prophecies have come true,” Agnes Ng, a 23-year old Singaporean accountancy student, told Reuters on Thursday.

She received one of the prophecies in an e-mail from a friend. Before forwarding the message to her contacts, she posted a copy on Usenet newsgroup alt.prophecies.nostradamus. The e-mail she received was even more specific, forecasting that:

“The big war will begin when the big city is burning

on the 11th day of the 9th month that…

two metal birds would crash into two tall statues

in the new city and the world will end soon after.”

One of the newsgroup contributors who goes by the e-mail moniker of “Justaguy” said this was a fake.

“It has been posted ad nauseam,” he said.

Nostradamus prophecies surface after nearly every major news event. False or real, they struck a chord in Singapore.

Bookstore salespeople told Reuters there had been strong demand for books on Nostradamus since Tuesday’s attacks.

An Internet Hoax

“Come the millennium, month 12

In the home of greatest power

The village idiot will come forth

To be acclaimed the leader.”

Shortly after the US Supreme Court selected George W. Bush as president in 2000, this quatrain made the Internet Rounds. After receiving many e-mail messages asking whether it had truly been written by Nostradamus, I used this site’s Nostradamus Search Engine to investigate. The following quatrain, which refers to an “Idiot Heir” — not “Village Idiot” — is perhaps the origin of the hoax. Scroll farther down this page to read comments made by John Hogue, author of many fine books concerning Nostradamus and his prophecies.

In the New York Post, you can reed :

XMAS GREETINGS OF THE RICH & FAMOUS

“Come the Millennium, month 12,

in the home of the greatest power,

the village idiot will come forth

to be acclaimed the leader.”

A doubtful one will not come far from the realm,

The greater part will want to support him:

A Capitol, will not want him to rule at all,

His great burden he will not be able to maintain.

This “doubtful one” could stand for the intellectually lightweight George W. Bush. The “doubt” could imply some ongoing suspicion throughout his presidency that Bush cheated Al Gore (who won the majority of the popular national vote) out of the popular vote in Florida by shady tactics. A fraud in the Florida vote count effectively gave Bush the necessary electoral votes to “legally” win the election. Nostradamus’ use of “doubtful one” could also indicate that with time an ever larger shadow of illegitimacy will cast itself across a Bush presidency.

The second line might describe a period of attempted healing during the aftermath of the election. A time when a majority of the people of America will try to rally around their “doubtful” new president.

Line three may hint to us who President Bush’s real political enemies are. By the way, it may not be the Democrats in the deadlocked Congress. My sense is it will be the right wing elements of his own Republican Party. But the obstacles do not end there. Those who “will not want him to rule” could be those men behind the scenes that may have put this maleable man into office to be their rehearsed puppet spokesman for their agenda.

How could those who put him there turn against him.

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