>>>Any significance with a red banner this time rather than a blue one?
Good question. Sure wish we had the answers.
Code red
Blood red
My thoughts, too. Red for blood - our blood.
“red banner” . . . “red ink”
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=nation_world&id=5450363
” . . . An Internet site deemed close to al-Qaida’s leadership announced earlier Wednesday that “good news” would be coming soon. The flashing red banner was interpreted by several other Islamist web sites as a sign that Osama bin Laden would issue a new message soon. It was not immediately clear whether it was in fact referring to his deputy’s new tape.”
http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3351832&page=1
“. . . The letters were postmarked late June from New York and were handwritten in red ink on loose-leaf paper.”