weird text message

this moring i got a text froma number of 218913645587 saying this

verry bloody situation. pls pray 4 us. pray 4 libya dont forget us. ya rab usterna u arhamna. that was a exact copy of the text could someone translate the last part of the text

reply to post by tamenie


Hmmm...translate.google.com tells me it's Swedish, but doesn't translate it into anything. Weird.

The 218 at the beginning of the number though is the International calling code for Libya.

ya rab usterna u arhamna i think i speeled it right

I believe it is a prayer. Ya rab means something along the lines of 'oh lord'

what country are you in op?

Nothing popped up on translate for me , found that Hamna means "a muslim name, means sparrow of paradise."

Originally posted by MR BOB
what country are you in op?

im in oregon of the u.s.a

so it might be some kind of small prayer or a saying.

well yes but why do they send it to a 503 area code im in america not the middle east
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I believe by google searching just the words Usterna and Arhamna that those are names. Usterna seems to be a surname and Arhamna can be used as either first name or a surname.

reply to post by tsawyer2



i just did the same thing and it told me it was indonesian, doing a google search only brings up this thread

i went through each language on the google translator, none made sense, and only a couple looked like they might be close

well how bad are things in that country?

Hmmm. This is sad if it's true.

It appears to me that a Libyan protester is just sending texts out to random numbers. I don't know what your position is on the matter, but if *I* received the same text or something similar from someONE similar, I would text back something like, "Good luck. I hope you get your freedom. Your friends in the USA"

reply to post by tamenie


يا رب is ya rab which means Oh Lord. The "na" ending is the suffix added to Arabic verbs which means "to us"; us being the direct object of the verb. I'm playing around with the first word "usterna" but "arhamna" or ارحمنا means have mercy on us.

reply to post by impaired
yes i was thinking of doing something along those lines or staying up to date with them but then theres the fact of how much money dose a internationa text cost

reply to post by tamenie


Would you mind if I did? And if it's cool, is that the exact number? Because I have no idea how to send an international text.

Edit - I think it could be done for free on the net.

reply to post by tamenie


pretty bad, troops firing on protesters.
all kinds of reports posted here on ats.

reply to post by impaired
not at all maby you could stay in depth with the protest and post on the fourms anyway the exact copy of number is 218913645587 at the begging of the number is a + dont no if you fot to put that i nwith it

reply to post by tamenie


Thank you! I encourage everyone else who is for the protesters to do the same!

reply to post by impaired
yes could you imajine th joy of that person that people they do not know use up the time to encourage the doing what they are doing!!!