# Did the date 9-11 have some significance for the terrorists?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 11, 2010, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-date-9-11-have-some-significance-for-the-terrorists/563790 "2010-12-11T16:19:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-date-9-11-have-some-significance-for-the-terrorists/563790/61 "2010-12-16T17:37:53Z")

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> [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](#):
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> Just want to throw this out there: according to the hejira/Islamic calendar, 9/11/2001 was 6/22/1422.
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> It’s just as likely they chose the date based on the Islamic calendar as the Gregorian calendar.

Very very very very unlikely they even knew what the date was.

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**Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-date-9-11-have-some-significance-for-the-terrorists/563790/62 "2010-12-16T17:39:42Z")

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> [@AClockworkMelon](#):
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> It sounds better in Arabic.

It certainly does not.

Hell “Al-Qaeda” is difficult to take seriously. Considering “Qaeda” in many middle eastern languages also means “textbook”.

Cartoonists and wits had a field day.

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