Friday, February 22, 2008

Giant Ababil birds terrorize US?

Apparently a number of reports on Arabic websites have claimed the recent spate of sightings of giant birds in US is due to Allah sending his dreaded Ababil birds to punish America.

Ababil birds are a race of enormous birds described in the Koran as being sent by Allah to drop red clay bricks on the army of elephants sent by the king of Yemen to attack the city of Mecca in the year (571 AD) when the prophet Mohammed was born. "They had snouts like the beaks of birds and paws like the paws of dogs.'' More details of the birds here.

According to these recent Arabic reports "a number of returning US servicemen and their relatives have died in car accidents caused by being driven off the road by attacks from Abbail birds dropping clay stones and swooping at them. When the Abbail birds are seen at night the divine angelic light surrounding the birds has led to them being misidentified as UFOs leading to a recent spate of UFO sightings. The most notable incident was over Stephenville, Texas. The birds have engaged in dogfights with American fighters successfully outflying the planes and baffling the USAF airforce. Embarrassed by this defeat the US government is trying cover up the Ababil birds' victory in the skies which is apparently why the US media isn't covering this."

It is claimed the bird's reign of terror will only end when US forces withdraw from Iraq.

Of course it might be the birds do not exist but I guess this idea is inspired by stories like these:

Sightings Of Mysterious Giant Bird Continue In San Antonio

July 2007

Man blames car wreck on prehistoric winged reptile,” Saturday, December 29, 2007.

The latter case blames a crash on
what appears to be a Pteranodon. I can't find much evidence to support the more dramatic versions of the Ababil bird's activities only there have been reports of UFO dogfights recently. It seems the Taliban called for Ababil birds in Afghanistan but I can't find any reports of them actually doing anything there :)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

These reports are true. Praise Allah!
The events of Surat al-Fil: The Elephant are coming to pass once more.

The latest planes to be dstroyed by the Ababil were an F-15 on Feb 20th over the Gulf of Mexico and a F-16 in Arizona on March 14.

Anonymous said...

I have checked those dates there were indeed USAF crashes on them but there are no mention of any giant birds being involved in fact one of the pilots was an American Muslim. This whole thing is a fantasy. What next genies suddenly destroying US tanks in Baghdad?

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