9/11 : foreknowledge : stock trading

2005-10-13

Richard Moore

We've all heard stories regarding stock trades in United &
American airlines, indicating foreknowledge of 9/11. This
article is particularly good in terms of its research and
apparent journalistic rigor.

This article isn't trying to present a theory of what 9/11 was
about, but focuses specifically on the stock trades issue.
It's a good 'reference piece' in the overall 9/11 jigsaw
puzzle.

As for the article's thesis, that "Israeli citizens" were the
beneficiaries of the trades, I see that as a bit of a side
issue. The important point is that foreknowledge was in
evidence in some circles, and we're not talking about Bin
Laden's circles. The Securities and Exchange Commission may
have pointed the finger at certain unnamed people, but they
may not be telling the whole story, and they may be
intentionally misleading us.  Obviously the whole 9/11 episode
has been characterized by lies and disinformation, and the
Securities and Exchange Commission is closely tied to Wall
Street generally and cannot be seen as a 'rogue source'.

rkm

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9.11 investigation 

ISRAELIS were 9-11 short sale stock buyers, betting on WTC
terror strikes, story killed... 
author: Mossad watch

FYI. Makes sense to me. Particularly when the Mossad cells
were watching the "Al-CIAda" cells the whole time from
Virginia to the 9-11 day-of when they were filming the towers
being hit and collapsing, celebrating all the while. Of course
Rabbi Chertoff of the Homeland Security Department now (then,
the second in command under Ashcroft at the DOJ) let the
Mossad budding filmmakers out of the country, without
explanation, without much media coverage.

trenchant quote: "Between August 26 and September 11, 2001, a
group of speculators, identified by the American Securities
and Exchange Commission as Israeli citizens, sold "short" a
list of 38 stocks that could reasonably be expected to fall in
value as a result of the pending attacks. These speculators
operated out of the Toronto, Canada and Frankfurt, Germany,
stock exchanges and their profits were specifically stated to
be "in the millions of dollars.""

Mossad emblem attempting to co-opt Jewish heritage: "by way of
deception"

SEC SECRET PROBE OF STOCK DEALINGS BEFORE 9/11


Between August 26 and September 11, 2001, a group of
speculators, identified by the American Securities and
Exchange Commission as Israeli citizens, sold "short" a list
of 38 stocks that could reasonably be expected to fall in
value as a result of the pending attacks. These speculators
operated out of the Toronto, Canada and Frankfurt, Germany,
stock exchanges and their profits were specifically stated to
be "in the millions of dollars."

Short selling of stocks involves the opportunity to gain large
profits by passing shares to a friendly third party, then
buying them back when the price falls. Historically, if this
precedes a traumatic event, it is an indication of
foreknowledge. It is widely known that the CIA uses the Promis
software to routinely monitor stock trades as a possible
warning sign of a terrorist attack or suspicious economic
behavior. A week after the Sept.11 attacks, the London Times
reported that the CIA had asked regulators for the Financial
Services Authority in London to investigate the suspicious
sales of millions of shares of stock just prior to the
terrorist acts. It was hoped the business paper trail might
lead to the terrorists.

Investigators from numerous government agencies are part of a
clandestine but official effort to resolve the market
manipulations There has been a great deal of talk about
insider trading of American stocks by certain Israeli groups
both in Canada and Germany between August 26 and the Sept.11
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Lynne Howard, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Board Options
Exchange (CBOE), stated that information about who made the
trades was available immediately. "We would have been aware of
any unusual activity right away. It would have been triggered
by any unusual volume. There is an automated system called
'blue sheeting,' or the CBOE Market Surveillance System, that
everyone in the business knows about. It provides information
on the trades - the name and even the Social Security number
on an account - and these surveillance systems are set up
specifically to look into insider trading. The system would
look at the volume, and then a real person would take over and
review it, going back in time and looking at other unusual
activity."

Howard continued, "The system is so smart that even if there
is a news event that triggers a market event it can go back in
time, and even the parameters can be changed depending on what
is being looked at. It's a very clever system and it is
instantaneous. Even with the system, though, we have very
experienced and savvy staff in our market-regulations area who
are always looking for things that might be unusual. They're
trained to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Even if it's
offshore, it might take a little longer, but all offshore
accounts have to go through U.S. member firms - members of the
CBOE - and it is easily and quickly identifiable who made the
trades. The member firm who made the trades has to have
identifiable information about the client under the 'Know Your
Customer' regulations (and we share all information with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.)"

Given all of this, at a minimum the CBOE and government
regulators who are conducting the secret investigations have
known for some time who made the options puts on a total of 38
stocks that might reasonably be anticipated to have a sharp
drop in value because of an attack similar to the 9/11
episode. The silence from the investigating camps could mean
several things: Either terrorists are responsible for the puts
on the listed stocks or others besides terrorists had
foreknowledge of the attack and used this knowledge to reap a
nice financial harvest from the tragedy.

Adam Hamilton of Zeal LLC, a North Dakota-based private
consulting company that publishes research on markets
worldwide, stated that "I heard that $22 million in profits
was made on these put options..."

Federal investigators are continuing to be so closed-mouthed
about these stock trades, and it is clear that a much wider
net has been cast, apparently looking for bigger international
fish involved in dubious financial activity relating to the
9/11 attacks on the world stock markets.

Just a month after the attacks the SEC sent out a list of 
stocks to various securities firms around the world looking
for information. The list includes stocks of American, United,
Continental, Northwest, Southwest and US Airways airlines, as
well as Martin, Boeing, Lockheed Martin Corp., AIG, American
Express Corp, American International Group, AMR Corporation,
Axa SA, Bank of America Corp, Bank of New York Corp, Bank One
Corp, Cigna Group, CNA Financial, Carnival Corp, Chubb Group,
John Hancock Financial Services, Hercules Inc, L-3
Communications Holdings, Inc., LTV Corporation, Marsh &
McLennan Cos. Inc., MetLife, Progressive Corp.,  General
Motors, Raytheon, W.R. Grace, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd.,
Lone Star Technologies, American Express, the Citigroup Inc.
,Royal & Sun Alliance, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Vornado
Reality Trust, Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter & Co., XL Capital
Ltd., and Bear Stearns.

The Times said market regulators in Germany, Japan and the US
all had received information concerning the short selling of
insurance, airlines and arms companies stock, all of which
fell sharply in the wake of the attacks.

City of London broker and analyst Richard Crossley noted that
someone sold shares in unusually large quantities beginning
three weeks before the assault on the WTC and Pentagon.

He said he took this as evidence that someone had insider
foreknowledge of the attacks.

"What is more awful than he should aim a stiletto blow at the
heart of Western financial markets?" he added. "But to profit
from it? Words fail me."

The US Government also admitted it was investigating short
selling, which evinced a compellingly strong foreknowledge of
the coming Arab attack.

There was unusually heavy trading in airline and insurance
stocks several days before Sept.11, which essentially bet on a
drop in the worth of the stocks.

It was reported by the Interdisciplinary Center, a
counter-terrorism think tank involving former Israeli
intelligence officers, that insiders made nearly $16 million
profit by short selling shares in American and United
Airlines, the two airlines that suffered hijacking, and the
investment firm of Morgan Stanley, which occupied 22 floors of
the WTC.

Apparently none of the suspicious transactions could be traced
to bin Laden because this news item quietly dropped from
sight, leaving many people wondering if it tracked back to
American firms or intelligence agencies.

Most of these transactions were handled primarily by Deutsche
Bank-A.B.Brown, a firm which until 1998 was chaired by A.
B."Buzzy" Krongard, who later became executive director of the
CIA.

More serious was an article in the Sept. 28, 2001 edition of
the Washington Post stating that officials with the instant
messaging firm of Odigo in New York confirmed that two
employees in Israel received text messages warning of an
attack on the WTC two hours before the planes crashed into the
buildings!

The firm's vice president of sales and marketing, Alex
Diamandis said it was possible that the warning was sent to
other Odigo members, but they had not received any reports of
such.

The day after, the Jerusalem Post claimed two Israelis died on
the hijacked airplanes and that 4,000 were missing at the WTC.

A week later, a Beirut television station reported that 4,000
Israeli employees of the WTC were absent the day of the
attack.

This information spread across the Internet but was quickly
branded a hoax.

On Sept. 19, the Washington Post reported about 113 Israelis
were missing at the WTC and the next day, President Bush noted
more than 130 Israelis were victims.

Finally, on Sept. 22, the New York Times stated "There were,
in fact, only three Israelis who had been confirmed as dead:
two on the planes and another who had been visiting the towers
on business and who was identified and buried."

Investigators from numerous government agencies are part of a
clandestine but official effort to resolve the market
manipulations There has been a great deal of talk about the
insider trading of American stocks by certain Israeli groups
both in Canada and Germany between August 26 and the Sept.11
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Government investigators have maintained a diplomatic silence
about a Department of Justice (DOJ) probe of possible
profiteering by interested parties with advance knowledge of
the attack.

On Sept. 6, 2001, the Thursday before the tragedy, 2,075 put
options were made on United Airlines and on Sept. 10, the day
before the attacks, 2,282 put options were recorded for
American Airlines. Given the prices at the time, this could
have yielded speculators between $2 million and $4 million in
profit.

The matter still is under investigation and none of the
government investigating bodies -including the FBI, the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and DOJ -are speaking
to reporters about insider trading. Even so, suspicion of
insider trading to profit from the Sept. 11 attacks is not
limited to U.S. regulators. Investigations were initiated in a
number of places including Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom,
France, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Switzerland and Spain. As in
the United States, all are treating these inquiries as if they
were state secrets.

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