The prediction of 9/11 by Nostradamus is a popular email hoax.
This quote was said to be attributed to him.....
"In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb",
The third big war will begin when the big city is burning"
- Nostradamus 1654
Some versions add this line.....
"...on the 11 day of the 9 month that...two metal birds would crash into two tall statues...in the new city..and the world will end soon after"
First point is that quote is NOT in the writings of Nostradamus and, the man died in 1566, almost 90 years earlier. It is a complete fabricated hoax.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/histori...
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/nostradamus...
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An overlooked fact about Nostradamus is that much of what he wrote are quotes from the Bible. They are not his Prophesies, but those of the Biblical Prophets.
The truth is that he was able to plagiarize the prophecies of the Bible and get away with it because in those days the Catholic church forbid the reading of the Scriptures except by the clergy.
Compare if you will......
Nostradamus - Quatrain 10-74
At the turn of the great seventh number
It will appear at the time of the games of slaughter
Not far from the great millennial age
When those who entered, will go out from their tombs.
Those words are out of the Bibles Book of Revelations Chapters 19 and 20
The disasters, predicted by Nostradamus, are the same as those quoted in Psalm 89,33 more than a thousand years earlier.
The battle at Armeggedon (world war three) was described by Ezekiel over a thousand years earlier and merely re-quoted by Nostradamus.
Fact is.... Nostradamus predicted/prophesied nothing.... he just quoted other prophets.
As a educated person who could read and write, he had access to the Bible by way of making copies by hand for the church (printing press not yet invented).
Just google search his name and you will find many many web sites showing that Nostradamus never claimed to be a Prophet. That title was only attributed to him hundreds of years later. He merely requoted the Bible in poetic verse.
So many people either do not know these facts, or conveniently ignore them.