Via Fox:

“Federal counterterrorism officials are analyzing a posting on an Islamic forum Web site that warns of “a special gift” to be given on the sixth anniversary of Sept. 11, FOX News has learned.

The warning was posted Sept. 2 on a site frequented by radical groups and said in part that “there will be a special gift coming on the day of the blessed invasion of Manhattan.”

Federal officials told FOX News they are trying to determine if it might be a specific warning or just part of broad chatter that has been heard during the last few months.

Postings talking about “gifts” have been seen before in the days leading up to the anniversary of Sept. 11.”

According to Dr. Rusty “John Doe” Shackleford, the “surprise” is a apparently an audio tape possibly another “Bin Laden” type.

“I can reveal that the website of interest is that of Inshallahshaheed’s The Ignored Puzzle of Knowledge’. The particular post in question is simply a preview of an audio set to be released on Sept. 11.

The post says:

Soon …. Soon … Soon … Soon… the blessed invasion of Manhattan

September 2, 2007

Posted by inshallahshaheed in United States of Losers, Jihad, America

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The blog has actually been deleted but Rusty has the screen captures.

By the way yours truly is actually traveling on 9/11, flying……phew. But I’m a dedicated blogger so if the airport wifi is up I’ll be living blogging the whole experience!

UPDATE: Hot Air has the news that the “gift” is a video of Bin Laden to be released in the next 72 hours. Here is the screen shot.

Only one frame but after blowing it up a bit, if indeed Bin Laden IS alive he’s half dead by the looks of it. Note the droop of the right eye and the jaundice (could be lighting), but we know that he reportedly has diabetes and these signs show a definite progression.

All in all not so much a “surprise” and a bit of an anticlimax considering all the scurrying of the MSM.