#8. To: wbales, Jethro Tull, Old Friend, Esso, All (#0)
From one of the comments at the link:
...another freaky fact... Check this out...a passport is usually good for 10 years...so then, that means this character's passport was issued on Sept. 11, 1991. And that date is when George Bush Sr. delivered the "New World Order" speech to Congress.
I think it's very likely that the persons responsible for choosing the date of the 9/11 attacks were thinking about the Bush speech. This was someone who could obsess about dates and times, and numerology.