This September marks seven years since the 2001 terrorist attack on American soil. Concurrently, September 7 is "opening Sunday" for the 2008 NFL season. At the same time, Major League Baseball will be winding down its regular season with a dozen teams competing for the playoffs. What does all this mean, and what is the connection between the NFL, Major League Baseball and the seven year anniversary of Islamic terrorists' strike against America?

Major League Baseball's pennant chase means packed stadiums for the dozen teams, and the cities they represent, still in the running for the playoffs. And, "opening Sunday" in the NFL means fourteen stadiums in fourteen different cities will also be packed with tens of thousands of fans. The combined attendance for these events on September 7 will be about one-million people.

On September 11, 2001 we discovered that significant "numbers" to us, are also significant to our enemy. Our significant "911" emergency phone number became the terrorists' significant attack date. What could this indicate? There are three famous monotheistic world religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Christians and Jews share the same "holy book", the Bible. One of the most, if not the most, significant numbers in the Bible is the number "seven". It's an expression of the totality and perfection of the God of Christianity and Judaism.

If Islamic terrorists found it attractive to use their enemy's (America) emergency number "911" as an attack date, it would probably be even more attractive for them to use the Jewish and Christian holy book's significant and symbolic number "seven" as the date for their next attack. After all, radical Islamists view Christianity and Judaism as abominations, and their believers as being infidels and pigs. For Islamic terrorists to strike America on the "seventh" anniversary of their previous attack, and to do it on the "seventh" of September, would certainly be a significant and simultaneous assault on their great Satan, America, and on the two competing monotheistic world religions that they despise. Moreover, it would give them the opportunity to do so with the maximum potential for fatalities and casualties; that is, one-million people packed shoulder to shoulder in NFL and Major League Baseball stadiums across America. It is also noteworthy that terrorists would have the added significance of repeating the numerical attack date of Pearl Harbor, December "7".

What kind of attack am I suggesting might occur on September 7? Have you ever wondered why there has never been a suicide bomber attack in America? They are almost conspicuous by their absence. While Islamic radicals have been blowing themselves up on a regular basis in nations around the world, why have they not utilized this favorite mode of attack against their most hated enemy, America, even once in the past seven years? They could easily have carried out suicide strikes in restaurants, hotels and shopping malls in American cities, as they have done worldwide. Yet, for some reason, they have chosen to completely refrain from these attacks in America. There would appear to be only one logical reason. If they had executed random suicide bomber strikes, we would have implemented stringent protective measures, including the installation of nationwide surveillance and detection equipment at all large public venues. However, because we have not experienced these attacks, terrorists could easily enter most public events in America with suicide bomb vests concealed beneath their clothing. I believe that massive numbers of them will soon do so in a simultaneous, catastrophic, nationwide attack. Could it be September 7?

How and where would it happen? September 7 not only affords Islamic terrorists the opportunity to attack Jews' and Christians' religiously significant number seven with maximum fatality and casualty potential at sports stadiums, but it also gives them the opportunity to murder, maim and injure tens of thousands of Christians in mega churches across America on their day of worship, Sunday. American mega churches have thousands of worshippers attending each of their Sunday services. A massive suicide attack on mega churches in fifteen or twenty cities could savagely assault hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting Christian worshippers, including thousands of children. Additional probable targets of shopping malls, amusement parks, bus and airline terminals, coupled with mega churches and sports stadiums, could impact millions.

How could such a massive attack be pulled off? Our enemy is very patient. They took several years planning their assault in 2001, and we can be sure that they have been planning their next strike over the last seven years. As before, the terrorists have probably been busy fitting in with their environments the past few years; becoming season ticket holders at the NFL and Major League Baseball stadiums they will attack, and being weekly attendees at the mega churches they will assault. In the process, they have become accepted as normal sports fans and as Christians.

Will September 7 be the fateful day when hundreds of suicide bombers will simultaneously detonate their concealed bomb vests in churches, shopping malls, amusement parks, transportation terminals and sports stadiums in numerous cities across America? Pearl Harbor was on December "7". Could something so big and catastrophic be coming on September "7", that will make Pearl Harbor seem like a minor incident by comparison? I implore government officials to greatly increase security at NFL and Major League Baseball stadiums on September 7. I remind them that they've been saying for the past several years that the next terrorist strike was not a matter of "if", but only a matter of "when". Furthermore, they have been telling us that Islamic terrorist cells exist throughout our nation. If they truly believe their own words, they should give serious consideration to the scenario and logical reasoning I have presented. 

Pastor Henry Bechthold

19397 Zumbro Ct. NW

Elk River, Mn. 55330

763-274-7183(H); 612-743-3841(C); wbshlb@msn.com