This cannot be a coincidence.
I have not yet found any OTHER significant event which happened on this date. Perhaps other FReepers can help.
There are many "This Date in History" links, but one of the most comprehensive that I have found is at:
the Daily Miscellany
It would be one thing for an organization without fixed targets of its own to plan something like this. But for a head of State with the sort of vulnerability that Iraq has, it just does not compute--unless he has indeed gone mad, or has a terminal illness and desires martyrdom.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
This article, published in 1995 and currently posted on the Federation of American Scientists web site, may be relevant to your suggestion that Hussein is behind this. Today's events seem to be patterned on Yousef's plots to blow up eleven airliners in one day and to take down both of the WTC towers. I didn't follow the original WTC bombing case closely, so I can't offer any commentary beyond the article itself.
This article, published in 1995 and currently posted on the Federation of American Scientists web site, may be relevant to your suggestion that Hussein is behind this. Today's events seem to be patterned on Yousef's plots to blow up eleven airliners in one day and to take down both of the WTC towers. I didn't follow the original WTC bombing case closely, so I can't offer any commentary beyond the article itself.
Individually, the pieces of this puzzle--the elusive identity and affiliation of the World Trade Center bomber; the series of explicit threats against the United States issuing from Baghdad; the question of Iraqi biological capabilities--raise troubling questions. Taken together, they provide the outline of a very frightening possibility. The lack of coordination between the Departments of Justice and State may have created a niche for terrorism within America's borders; while the lack of any adequate response to the two major bombing conspiracies may have already begun to undermine the credibility of the threat of deterrence. So far, State Department officials have been content to leave the issue of Iraq's possible resort to biological terrorism on the back burner, secure in the belief that the threat of nuclear retaliation will be sufficient deterrent. But Saddam has previously miscalculated the American reaction to his provocations. It would be reassuring to know that, somewhere in the policy-apparatus of the State Department, someone is looking seriously at the possibility of future terrorist acts and at the requirements of effective deterrence.
At this point, we must note that it is no coincidence that the meeting was to last eleven days. We know that in the realm of the occult, astrology and numerology are vitally important. I know, because I was once very much a part of that world. I never use such things now as a Christian, but I do call attention to how the enemy uses them. The number 11 has come into prominence in that past year, because the witches that serve as the priesthood for the One-World Government of Illuminism believe that we are now entering into the age of Aquarius, which is the eleventh sign of the Zodiac. That is why the meetings were to last eleven days. It is also no coincidence that they picked the week of Friday the 13th for their meetings. We continually see the numbers 13, 18, 33, and 39 in all of their activities, and now we see 11's everywhere. In the realm of witchcraft, numbers can be triumviral or intensified by 3. Thus, three 6's becomes 18, and three 13's becomes 39. With that in mind, we should remember that the United Nations complex is built on 18 acres of land on the East River, where there once stood the largest stockyard and slaughtering facility in the world. Untold thousands of cattle had been slaughtered there, soaking the ground with blood. New Yorkers used to refer to it as "blood alley" until John D. Rockefeller bought it and gave it to the United Nations. Eleven architects designed the complex and the tall secretariat building shaped like a monolith is 39 stories high.