Previously I posted a story about the investigation into Insider trading and unclaimed profits before September 11th. (The fact that the profits remained unclaimed is the most suspicious part of the story, although the large number of short selling bets on the affected companies also spurred an investigation.)

A writer going by the moniker 'Web slave' posted a long list of stories related to the trading investigation which I mirror here...

http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=86630&group=webcast

The following is an article from Security Industry Online. However, you have to haggle with getting that 2 week free membership so much, that I gave up trying to procure article. You can get it free of Lexis-nexis news, as well as all other articles mentions. This is a costly bit of software but university libraries will generally have it.
I only got as far as finding where the article was in the archive and am listing it here:
“Anti-money-Laundering Vendors Focus on Brokerages”
By Shane Kite
http://www.securitiesindustry.com/issue.cfm?id=316

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“Treasury Investigating Bond Trading; Securities: Consultant gave clients details before official announcement that 30-year sales will be eliminated.”
[Home Edition] SIMON KENNEDY; The Los Angeles Times; Nov 3, 2001; Record edition; pg. C.3
Abstract:
The Treasury leaked its own announcement by inadvertently posting a statement on its Web site around 9:50 a.m. The department's Office of Public Affairs issued a statement Wednesday evening confirming what it called an "inadvertent" leak. "Treasury regrets this occurred and will work to ensure the integrity of the announcement process," the statement said.

[Pete Davis], a former congressional aide who attends ...
Abstract:
The Treasury leaked its own announcement by inadvertently posting a statement on its Web site around 9:50 a.m. The department's Office of Public Affairs issued a statement Wednesday evening confirming what it called an "inadvertent" leak. "Treasury regrets this occurred and will work to ensure the integrity of the announcement process," the statement said.

[Pete Davis], a former congressional aide who attends ...

This sounds like a very interesting Article. However, the LA Times are being money groveling scumfucks in demanding you pay to view the story.
Here’s the Url for their archive. Type ‘title’ to find the article (or copy and paste it better, yet).
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“`Insider trading' by terrorists is suspected in Europe”
BRUSSELS -- The president of Germany's central bank said Saturday there was mounting evidence that people connected to the attacks in New York and Washington sought to profit from the tragedy by engaging in ``terrorism insider trading'' on European stock and commodity markets.
In an article by Mike Ruppert, it was mentioned that Buzz Krongard, CIA Executive Director is tied to Dd Deutsch Bank which has ties to former counsel to CIA director George Tenet. Here’s one quote from the article: “…The source familiar with the United trades identified Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, the American investment banking arm of German giant Deutsche Bank, as the investment bank used to purchase at least some of these options…” This was the operation managed by Krongard until as recently as 1998.
As reported in other news stories, Deutsche Bank was also the hub of insider trading activity connected to Munich Re. just before the attacks.”
Read more on the connection to insider trading with the CIA at:
http://www.copvcia.com/stories/oct_2001/krongard

http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/world/digdocs/010764.htm


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**Due to being sick of being obligated to pay $ to check out sites, I am going to re-post the content of one, since it is telling.**

Trading Probe More Bad News for Cruise Lines page A1
Miami Daily Business Review (also known as South Florida Business Review)
By Anika Myers

“Cruise Lines Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) and Royal Caribbean Cruise lines (NYSE: RCL) received some unwanted publicity last week after the US Securities and Exchange Commission Announced an Investigation of suspicious trading in 2 Miami based companies.
The regulators are seeking any connection between terrorist groups and short selling of the cruise lines’ shares, along with the shares of 36 other companies, immediately before and after the terrorist attacks.
The SEC hasn’t contacted representatives of either cruise line about the progress of the investigation, according to representatives from both cruise lines. Both lines declined to comment on the investigation.
The probe follows a spate of bad news for both firms. Since s11, Royal Caribbean and Carnival have announced price discounts to spur reservations. Fluctuating stock prices and investment firms’ bearish-ness about their debt ratings has battered both firms.
RCL last week announced imminent layoffs of up to 100 local employees and that it may delay the construction of new ships.
For it’s part, the SEC—which declined to comment on investigation—on O3 actually announced plans to ease restrictions on shorting well-known stocks.
The cruise lines hope to assuage potential customers fears about safety by heightening internal security.
Mike Crye, the president of the International Council of Cruise Lines, in testimony before the US Senate, explained that passenger baggage and cargo are now screened closely and that cruise ships are working w/ the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to insure no fugitives board.
ICCL spokesman Molly Mc Pherson declined to comment on any external or protective measures that cruise ships might take.
Before the attacks, on Sept. 10, CNL shares were trading at $28.52. When trading resumed on Sept. 17, the shares fell to $19.43. At midday, Tues., they traded at $21.31. They traded at $12.76 on Sept. 17. At midday Tues. they traded at about $10, about the same as Monday’s closing price.”
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“Suspicious profits sit uncollected
Airline investors seem to be lying low”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/29/MN186128.DTL
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“SEC wants data-sharing system
Network of brokerages would help trace trades by terrorists”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/10/19/BU142745.DTL

"Treasury Probing Bond Trades"-- 11/5/01
By SIMON KENNEDY and JUDY MATHEWSON, BLOOMBERG NEWS
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000088404nov05.story
_____________________________________________________________________________

U.S. Inquiry Into Trading of Long Bond
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/05/business/05TREA.html?searchpv=past7days
______________________________________________________________________________
" SEC investigates pre-attack trading in shares of 38 companies, asks brokerages to review records.”
The problem with this article is that Associated Press charges people to read the articles. Scroll down to see it. I can't list it's exact location cuz AP is charging $2.50 to see the fucking article. From what I saw at it using Lexis-Nexis, it lists more of the companies listed in the SEC's list of companies being investigated for short selling prior to s11. It says that General Motors, Raytheon, Morgan Stanley (resident of WTC), Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, the financial firm Marsh & McLennan. It mentions the SEC's was posted the Monday preceding October 3 at the Web site for the Investment Dealers Association of Canada. Other companies on the list are the parent companies of major Airlines American, Continental, Delta, Northwest, Southwest United and USAirways as well as cruise lines Carnival and Royal Carribean, aircraft maker Boeing and defense contractor Lockheed Martin. The article also sez that several insurance companies are listed. These are: "American International Group, AXA, Chubb, Cigna, CNA financial, John Hancock and MetLife."
The article also sez, "Germany's stock market regulator has said it was looking into the possibility of suspicious short selling of insurance company shares- including AXA, a big French company whose shares also are traded in the US- just before the terrorist attacks. As with put- options, investors who engage in short selling are betting the price of the stock will fall. The list of the 38 companies also include American Express; Bank of New York; Bank One; Bear Stearns; Citigroup; Hercules; L-3 Communications Holdings; LTV Corp; Lone Star Technologies; Progressive Corp; Royal Sun & Alliance; XL Capital; and W.R. Grace."
Hey, doesn't that Lone Star Technologies make ya think maybe even Dubya or some of his friends were selling their stock as puts. This being in Tex-ass. Ya gotta follow the locations as well as the money.
http://wire.ap.org/?FRONTID=HOME&SITE=OHCPO&enter=Go

A few articles mention the Chicago Board Options Exhange as being the original firm to notice the odd trading which occured prior to s11. The AP article I read in my local paper said that on Sept 10th tons of put-options were sold for AMR and UAL. Also, suspicious trading activity occured heavily on s6 thru s7.

The website for CBOE is: http://www.cboe.com

"Suspiciously Timed Bets Against Airlines Expires Today"
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/money/stocks/2001-10-19-puts.htm

Treasury Investigating Bond Trading
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000087933nov03.story

"Terrorists trailed at CBOE" http://www.suntimes.com/terror/stories/cst-nws-trade20.html

"Probe of options trading link to attacks confirmed"
http://www.suntimes.com/terror/stories/cst-fin-trade21.html
____________________________________________________________________________
"CBOE probes reports of unusual trading before attacks" http://www.suntimes.com/terror/stories/18cboe.html
____________________________________________________________________________
"Brokerage Firms Across America look for suspicious trading: German gov't freezes 214 accounts suspected with having ties with the terrorists"
This mentions list of 38 companies being investigated by the SEC. However, the SEC won't talk about it. Source- public radio show: "Market Place."
http://www.marketplace.org/shows/2001/10/papertrail_02.html

Here's a link I obtained from this article which mentions a few of the firms:
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/common/FullStory.html&cf=tgam/common/FullStory.cfg&configFileLoc=tgam/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20011002&dateOffset=&hub=business&title=Business&cache_key=business&current_row=4&start_row=4&num_rows=1

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"Terrorists Suspected of Profiteering"
Calgary-Herald. Sunday, Sept. 23, 2001. Good fucking luck finding it online. You have to mail order their archives dating back prior to 14 days ago. If you have Lexis-Nexis (universities do) you can read the article. My sympathies.
Well, hopefully this will give you some places to begin investigating this. With it being clear that Bush told the FBI and crew to lay off Bin Laden and his family (see: article from the Times of India: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1030259305
See this too:
http://www.indymedia.org/print.php3?article_id=85496

In conclusion
Something is up in the White House. I mean, when ya figure that Bush and Bin Laden were once business partners of sorts (I will have to dig for that article, thank you)and that Bush would suck up to get Saudi Oil, you begin to wonder. Then, when Market Place, the public radio stock market reporting show which airs on my local station at six, is ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT OIL MOTIVATING THIS WAR, you have to just sit back and shit a twinkie. I AM DEAD SERIOUS. Here is the intro of the article:
"As the President and his advisors plan U.S. operations against terrorism, their first goal is, clearly, to root out Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network. Not far from their minds, though, must be America’s long-term oil interests in the region. How concerns about oil may impact how this war is fought and may explain why it started in the first place. This month on Marketplace and the Marketplace Morning Report, we'll take a look at the war against terrorism and how it relates to the politics and economics of oil." http://www.marketplace.org

Here are some additional articles I lifted of this Indymedia post, (http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=86153 ) which are also about the insider trading. I figure that this ultra concise listing of articles will cut some slack for those new to indymedia, confused by the undercover cops who write in or who just simply have a memory like a sieve!! I also, recommend reading this article, as the author also is attempting to archive other aspects of s11 which don’t add up in the media’s accounts.

The Chicago Board Options Exchange, the world's biggest options market, has joined a widening probe of whether terrorists may have profited from bearish trades in airline, insurance and brokerage stocks before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
- Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2001
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-091901trading.story


German central bank president Ernst Welteke said a study by his bank strongly points to "terrorism insider trading" not only in shares of heavily affected industries such as airlines and insurance companies, but also in gold and oil.
- Fox News, September 22, 2001
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34910,00.html


Central banks and supervisory bodies in New York and across Europe are conducting investigations into what one European central banker says are ever-clearer signs of market manipulation.
- CNN, September 24, 2001
http://fyi.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/09/24/gen.europe.shortselling/


Last week, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt said the SEC was examining all unusual trading activity of stocks most severely affected by the Sept. 11 attacks. The SEC is investigating whether people associated with the terrorists might have tried to profit from the catastrophe by engaging in risky trading strategies that would have paid big profits when airlines and other stocks plunged.
- USA Today, September 26, 2001
http://www.usatoday.com/money/general/2001-09-26-suspicious-trading.htm


SEC Probes Suspicious Trading There was unusually heavy trading in airline and other affected stocks several days before the attacks, essentially betting on a coming decline in their value.
- Washington Post, October 2, 2001
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59537-2001Oct2.html


The Wall Street Journal reported on October 2 that the ongoing investigation by the SEC into suspicious stock trades had been joined by a Secret Service probe into an unusually high volume of five-year US Treasury note purchases prior to the attacks. The Treasury note transactions included…A SINGLE $5 BILLION TRADE.
- The Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2001
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/oct2001/bond-o05.shtml


"To date, there are no flags or indicators" showing that terrorists used trading strategies known as "short selling" to profit from the attacks, Dennis Lormel, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's financial crimes unit, told a congressional committee on Oct. 3. Some experts now say they doubt that such a scheme took place. What appears to be suspicious activity in some stocks may turn out to have been legitimate trading, they say.
- Los Angeles Times, October 18, 2001
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000083041oct18.story



S11 Short Selling Bibliography

“ Short Selling tied to last weeks terrorist act “
Asenio & Company:PR Newswire
Sept. 18th, 2001
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The following is an article from Security Industry Online. However, you have to haggle with getting that 2 week free membership so much, that I gave up trying to procure article. You can get it free of Lexis-nexis news, as well as all other articles mentions. This is a costly bit of software but university libraries will generally have it.
I only got as far as finding where the article was in the archive and am listing it here:
“Anti-money-Laundering Vendors Focus on Brokerages”
By Shane Kite
http://www.securitiesindustry.com/issue.cfm?id=316

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“Treasury Investigating Bond Trading; Securities: Consultant gave clients details before official announcement that 30-year sales will be eliminated.”
[Home Edition] SIMON KENNEDY; The Los Angeles Times; Nov 3, 2001; Record edition; pg. C.3
Abstract:
The Treasury leaked its own announcement by inadvertently posting a statement on its Web site around 9:50 a.m. The department's Office of Public Affairs issued a statement Wednesday evening confirming what it called an "inadvertent" leak. "Treasury regrets this occurred and will work to ensure the integrity of the announcement process," the statement said.

[Pete Davis], a former congressional aide who attends ...
Abstract:
The Treasury leaked its own announcement by inadvertently posting a statement on its Web site around 9:50 a.m. The department's Office of Public Affairs issued a statement Wednesday evening confirming what it called an "inadvertent" leak. "Treasury regrets this occurred and will work to ensure the integrity of the announcement process," the statement said.

[Pete Davis], a former congressional aide who attends ...

This sounds like a very interesting Article. However, the LA Times are being money groveling scumfucks in demanding you pay to view the story.
Here’s the Url for their archive. Type ‘title’ to find the article (or copy and paste it better, yet).
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“`Insider trading' by terrorists is suspected in Europe”
BRUSSELS -- The president of Germany's central bank said Saturday there was mounting evidence that people connected to the attacks in New York and Washington sought to profit from the tragedy by engaging in ``terrorism insider trading'' on European stock and commodity markets.
In an article by Mike Ruppert, it was mentioned that Buzz Krongard, CIA Executive Director is tied to Dd Deutsch Bank which has ties to former counsel to CIA director George Tenet. Here’s one quote from the article: “…The source familiar with the United trades identified Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, the American investment banking arm of German giant Deutsche Bank, as the investment bank used to purchase at least some of these options…” This was the operation managed by Krongard until as recently as 1998.
As reported in other news stories, Deutsche Bank was also the hub of insider trading activity connected to Munich Re. just before the attacks.”
Read more on the connection to insider trading with the CIA at:
http://www.copvcia.com/stories/oct_2001/krongard

http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/world/digdocs/010764.htm


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**Due to being sick of being obligated to pay $ to check out sites, I am going to re-post the content of one, since it is telling.**

Trading Probe More Bad News for Cruise Lines page A1
Miami Daily Business Review (also known as South Florida Business Review)
By Anika Myers

“Cruise Lines Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) and Royal Caribbean Cruise lines (NYSE: RCL) received some unwanted publicity last week after the US Securities and Exchange Commission Announced an Investigation of suspicious trading in 2 Miami based companies.
The regulators are seeking any connection between terrorist groups and short selling of the cruise lines’ shares, along with the shares of 36 other companies, immediately before and after the terrorist attacks.
The SEC hasn’t contacted representatives of either cruise line about the progress of the investigation, according to representatives from both cruise lines. Both lines declined to comment on the investigation.
The probe follows a spate of bad news for both firms. Since s11, Royal Caribbean and Carnival have announced price discounts to spur reservations. Fluctuating stock prices and investment firms’ bearish-ness about their debt ratings has battered both firms.
RCL last week announced imminent layoffs of up to 100 local employees and that it may delay the construction of new ships.
For it’s part, the SEC—which declined to comment on investigation—on O3 actually announced plans to ease restrictions on shorting well-known stocks.
The cruise lines hope to assuage potential customers fears about safety by heightening internal security.
Mike Crye, the president of the International Council of Cruise Lines, in testimony before the US Senate, explained that passenger baggage and cargo are now screened closely and that cruise ships are working w/ the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to insure no fugitives board.
ICCL spokesman Molly Mc Pherson declined to comment on any external or protective measures that cruise ships might take.
Before the attacks, on Sept. 10, CNL shares were trading at $28.52. When trading resumed on Sept. 17, the shares fell to $19.43. At midday, Tues., they traded at $21.31. They traded at $12.76 on Sept. 17. At midday Tues. they traded at about $10, about the same as Monday’s closing price.”
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“Suspicious profits sit uncollected
Airline investors seem to be lying low”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/29/MN186128.DTL
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“SEC wants data-sharing system
Network of brokerages would help trace trades by terrorists”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/10/19/BU142745.DTL

"Treasury Probing Bond Trades"-- 11/5/01
By SIMON KENNEDY and JUDY MATHEWSON, BLOOMBERG NEWS
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000088404nov05.story
_____________________________________________________________________________

U.S. Inquiry Into Trading of Long Bond
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/05/business/05TREA.html?searchpv=past7days
______________________________________________________________________________
" SEC investigates pre-attack trading in shares of 38 companies, asks brokerages to review records.”
The problem with this article is that Associated Press charges people to read the articles. Scroll down to see it. I can't list it's exact location cuz AP is charging $2.50 to see the fucking article. From what I saw at it using Lexis-Nexis, it lists more of the companies listed in the SEC's list of companies being investigated for short selling prior to s11. It says that General Motors, Raytheon, Morgan Stanley (resident of WTC), Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, the financial firm Marsh & McLennan. It mentions the SEC's was posted the Monday preceding October 3 at the Web site for the Investment Dealers Association of Canada. Other companies on the list are the parent companies of major Airlines American, Continental, Delta, Northwest, Southwest United and USAirways as well as cruise lines Carnival and Royal Carribean, aircraft maker Boeing and defense contractor Lockheed Martin. The article also sez that several insurance companies are listed. These are: "American International Group, AXA, Chubb, Cigna, CNA financial, John Hancock and MetLife."
The article also sez, "Germany's stock market regulator has said it was looking into the possibility of suspicious short selling of insurance company shares- including AXA, a big French company whose shares also are traded in the US- just before the terrorist attacks. As with put- options, investors who engage in short selling are betting the price of the stock will fall. The list of the 38 companies also include American Express; Bank of New York; Bank One; Bear Stearns; Citigroup; Hercules; L-3 Communications Holdings; LTV Corp; Lone Star Technologies; Progressive Corp; Royal Sun & Alliance; XL Capital; and W.R. Grace."
Hey, doesn't that Lone Star Technologies make ya think maybe even Dubya or some of his friends were selling their stock as puts. This being in Tex-ass. Ya gotta follow the locations as well as the money.
http://wire.ap.org/?FRONTID=HOME&SITE=OHCPO&enter=Go

A few articles mention the Chicago Board Options Exhange as being the original firm to notice the odd trading which occured prior to s11. The AP article I read in my local paper said that on Sept 10th tons of put-options were sold for AMR and UAL. Also, suspicious trading activity occured heavily on s6 thru s7.

The website for CBOE is: http://www.cboe.com

"Suspiciously Timed Bets Against Airlines Expires Today"
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/money/stocks/2001-10-19-puts.htm

Treasury Investigating Bond Trading
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000087933nov03.story

"Terrorists trailed at CBOE" http://www.suntimes.com/terror/stories/cst-nws-trade20.html

"Probe of options trading link to attacks confirmed"
http://www.suntimes.com/terror/stories/cst-fin-trade21.html
____________________________________________________________________________
"CBOE probes reports of unusual trading before attacks" http://www.suntimes.com/terror/stories/18cboe.html
____________________________________________________________________________
"Brokerage Firms Across America look for suspicious trading: German gov't freezes 214 accounts suspected with having ties with the terrorists"
This mentions list of 38 companies being investigated by the SEC. However, the SEC won't talk about it. Source- public radio show: "Market Place."
http://www.marketplace.org/shows/2001/10/papertrail_02.html

Here's a link I obtained from this article which mentions a few of the firms:
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/common/FullStory.html&cf=tgam/common/FullStory.cfg&configFileLoc=tgam/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20011002&dateOffset=&hub=business&title=Business&cache_key=business&current_row=4&start_row=4&num_rows=1

____________________________________________________________________________
"Terrorists Suspected of Profiteering"
Calgary-Herald. Sunday, Sept. 23, 2001. Good fucking luck finding it online. You have to mail order their archives dating back prior to 14 days ago. If you have Lexis-Nexis (universities do) you can read the article. My sympathies.
Well, hopefully this will give you some places to begin investigating this. With it being clear that Bush told the FBI and crew to lay off Bin Laden and his family (see: article from the Times of India: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1030259305
See this too:
http://www.indymedia.org/print.php3?article_id=85496

In conclusion
Something is up in the White House. I mean, when ya figure that Bush and Bin Laden were once business partners of sorts (I will have to dig for that article, thank you)and that Bush would suck up to get Saudi Oil, you begin to wonder. Then, when Market Place, the public radio stock market reporting show which airs on my local station at six, is ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT OIL MOTIVATING THIS WAR, you have to just sit back and shit a twinkie. I AM DEAD SERIOUS. Here is the intro of the article:
"As the President and his advisors plan U.S. operations against terrorism, their first goal is, clearly, to root out Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network. Not far from their minds, though, must be America’s long-term oil interests in the region. How concerns about oil may impact how this war is fought and may explain why it started in the first place. This month on Marketplace and the Marketplace Morning Report, we'll take a look at the war against terrorism and how it relates to the politics and economics of oil." http://www.marketplace.org

Here are some additional articles I lifted of this Indymedia post, (http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=86153 ) which are also about the insider trading. I figure that this ultra concise listing of articles will cut some slack for those new to indymedia, confused by the undercover cops who write in or who just simply have a memory like a sieve!! I also, recommend reading this article, as the author also is attempting to archive other aspects of s11 which don’t add up in the media’s accounts.

The Chicago Board Options Exchange, the world's biggest options market, has joined a widening probe of whether terrorists may have profited from bearish trades in airline, insurance and brokerage stocks before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
- Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2001
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-091901trading.story


German central bank president Ernst Welteke said a study by his bank strongly points to "terrorism insider trading" not only in shares of heavily affected industries such as airlines and insurance companies, but also in gold and oil.
- Fox News, September 22, 2001
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34910,00.html


Central banks and supervisory bodies in New York and across Europe are conducting investigations into what one European central banker says are ever-clearer signs of market manipulation.
- CNN, September 24, 2001
http://fyi.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/09/24/gen.europe.shortselling/


Last week, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt said the SEC was examining all unusual trading activity of stocks most severely affected by the Sept. 11 attacks. The SEC is investigating whether people associated with the terrorists might have tried to profit from the catastrophe by engaging in risky trading strategies that would have paid big profits when airlines and other stocks plunged.
- USA Today, September 26, 2001
http://www.usatoday.com/money/general/2001-09-26-suspicious-trading.htm


SEC Probes Suspicious Trading There was unusually heavy trading in airline and other affected stocks several days before the attacks, essentially betting on a coming decline in their value.
- Washington Post, October 2, 2001
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59537-2001Oct2.html


The Wall Street Journal reported on October 2 that the ongoing investigation by the SEC into suspicious stock trades had been joined by a Secret Service probe into an unusually high volume of five-year US Treasury note purchases prior to the attacks. The Treasury note transactions included…A SINGLE $5 BILLION TRADE.
- The Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2001
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/oct2001/bond-o05.shtml


"To date, there are no flags or indicators" showing that terrorists used trading strategies known as "short selling" to profit from the attacks, Dennis Lormel, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's financial crimes unit, told a congressional committee on Oct. 3. Some experts now say they doubt that such a scheme took place. What appears to be suspicious activity in some stocks may turn out to have been legitimate trading, they say.
- Los Angeles Times, October 18, 2001
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000083041oct18.story



S11 Short Selling Bibliography

“ Short Selling tied to last weeks terrorist act “
Asenio & Company:PR Newswire
Sept. 18th, 2001
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The following is an article from Security Industry Online. However, you have to haggle with getting that 2 week free membership so much, that I gave up trying to procure article. You can get it free of Lexis-nexis news, as well as all other articles mentions. This is a costly bit of software but university libraries will generally have it.
I only got as far as finding where the article was in the archive and am listing it here:
“Anti-money-Laundering Vendors Focus on Brokerages”
By Shane Kite
http://www.securitiesindustry.com/issue.cfm?id=316

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“Treasury Investigating Bond Trading; Securities: Consultant gave clients details before official announcement that 30-year sales will be eliminated.”
[Home Edition] SIMON KENNEDY; The Los Angeles Times; Nov 3, 2001; Record edition; pg. C.3
Abstract:
The Treasury leaked its own announcement by inadvertently posting a statement on its Web site around 9:50 a.m. The department's Office of Public Affairs issued a statement Wednesday evening confirming what it called an "inadvertent" leak. "Treasury regrets this occurred and will work to ensure the integrity of the announcement process," the statement said.

[Pete Davis], a former congressional aide who attends ...
Abstract:
The Treasury leaked its own announcement by inadvertently posting a statement on its Web site around 9:50 a.m. The department's Office of Public Affairs issued a statement Wednesday evening confirming what it called an "inadvertent" leak. "Treasury regrets this occurred and will work to ensure the integrity of the announcement process," the statement said.

[Pete Davis], a former congressional aide who attends ...

This sounds like a very interesting Article. However, the LA Times are being money groveling scumfucks in demanding you pay to view the story.
Here’s the Url for their archive. Type ‘title’ to find the article (or copy and paste it better, yet).
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
“`Insider trading' by terrorists is suspected in Europe”
BRUSSELS -- The president of Germany's central bank said Saturday there was mounting evidence that people connected to the attacks in New York and Washington sought to profit from the tragedy by engaging in ``terrorism insider trading'' on European stock and commodity markets.
In an article by Mike Ruppert, it was mentioned that Buzz Krongard, CIA Executive Director is tied to Dd Deutsch Bank which has ties to former counsel to CIA director George Tenet. Here’s one quote from the article: “…The source familiar with the United trades identified Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, the American investment banking arm of German giant Deutsche Bank, as the investment bank used to purchase at least some of these options…” This was the operation managed by Krongard until as recently as 1998.
As reported in other news stories, Deutsche Bank was also the hub of insider trading activity connected to Munich Re. just before the attacks.”
Read more on the connection to insider trading with the CIA at:
http://www.copvcia.com/stories/oct_2001/krongard

http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/world/digdocs/010764.htm


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**Due to being sick of being obligated to pay $ to check out sites, I am going to re-post the content of one, since it is telling.**

Trading Probe More Bad News for Cruise Lines page A1
Miami Daily Business Review (also known as South Florida Business Review)
By Anika Myers

“Cruise Lines Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) and Royal Caribbean Cruise lines (NYSE: RCL) received some unwanted publicity last week after the US Securities and Exchange Commission Announced an Investigation of suspicious trading in 2 Miami based companies.
The regulators are seeking any connection between terrorist groups and short selling of the cruise lines’ shares, along with the shares of 36 other companies, immediately before and after the terrorist attacks.
The SEC hasn’t contacted representatives of either cruise line about the progress of the investigation, according to representatives from both cruise lines. Both lines declined to comment on the investigation.
The probe follows a spate of bad news for both firms. Since s11, Royal Caribbean and Carnival have announced price discounts to spur reservations. Fluctuating stock prices and investment firms’ bearish-ness about their debt ratings has battered both firms.
RCL last week announced imminent layoffs of up to 100 local employees and that it may delay the construction of new ships.
For it’s part, the SEC—which declined to comment on investigation—on O3 actually announced plans to ease restrictions on shorting well-known stocks.
The cruise lines hope to assuage potential customers fears about safety by heightening internal security.
Mike Crye, the president of the International Council of Cruise Lines, in testimony before the US Senate, explained that passenger baggage and cargo are now screened closely and that cruise ships are working w/ the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to insure no fugitives board.
ICCL spokesman Molly Mc Pherson declined to comment on any external or protective measures that cruise ships might take.
Before the attacks, on Sept. 10, CNL shares were trading at $28.52. When trading resumed on Sept. 17, the shares fell to $19.43. At midday, Tues., they traded at $21.31. They traded at $12.76 on Sept. 17. At midday Tues. they traded at about $10, about the same as Monday’s closing price.”
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“Suspicious profits sit uncollected
Airline investors seem to be lying low”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/29/MN186128.DTL
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“SEC wants data-sharing system
Network of brokerages would help trace trades by terrorists”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/10/19/BU142745.DTL

"Treasury Probing Bond Trades"-- 11/5/01
By SIMON KENNEDY and JUDY MATHEWSON, BLOOMBERG NEWS
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000088404nov05.story
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U.S. Inquiry Into Trading of Long Bond
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/05/business/05TREA.html?searchpv=past7days
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" SEC investigates pre-attack trading in shares of 38 companies, asks brokerages to review records.”
The problem with this article is that Associated Press charges people to read the articles. Scroll down to see it. I can't list it's exact location cuz AP is charging $2.50 to see the fucking article. From what I saw at it using Lexis-Nexis, it lists more of the companies listed in the SEC's list of companies being investigated for short selling prior to s11. It says that General Motors, Raytheon, Morgan Stanley (resident of WTC), Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, the financial firm Marsh & McLennan. It mentions the SEC's was posted the Monday preceding October 3 at the Web site for the Investment Dealers Association of Canada. Other companies on the list are the parent companies of major Airlines American, Continental, Delta, Northwest, Southwest United and USAirways as well as cruise lines Carnival and Royal Carribean, aircraft maker Boeing and defense contractor Lockheed Martin. The article also sez that several insurance companies are listed. These are: "American International Group, AXA, Chubb, Cigna, CNA financial, John Hancock and MetLife."
The article also sez, "Germany's stock market regulator has said it was looking into the possibility of suspicious short selling of insurance company shares- including AXA, a big French company whose shares also are traded in the US- just before the terrorist attacks. As with put- options, investors who engage in short selling are betting the price of the stock will fall. The list of the 38 companies also include American Express; Bank of New York; Bank One; Bear Stearns; Citigroup; Hercules; L-3 Communications Holdings; LTV Corp; Lone Star Technologies; Progressive Corp; Royal Sun & Alliance; XL Capital; and W.R. Grace."
Hey, doesn't that Lone Star Technologies make ya think maybe even Dubya or some of his friends were selling their stock as puts. This being in Tex-ass. Ya gotta follow the locations as well as the money.
http://wire.ap.org/?FRONTID=HOME&SITE=OHCPO&enter=Go

A few articles mention the Chicago Board Options Exhange as being the original firm to notice the odd trading which occured prior to s11. The AP article I read in my local paper said that on Sept 10th tons of put-options were sold for AMR and UAL. Also, suspicious trading activity occured heavily on s6 thru s7.

The website for CBOE is: http://www.cboe.com

"Suspiciously Timed Bets Against Airlines Expires Today"
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/money/stocks/2001-10-19-puts.htm

Treasury Investigating Bond Trading
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000087933nov03.story

"Terrorists trailed at CBOE" http://www.suntimes.com/terror/stories/cst-nws-trade20.html

"Probe of options trading link to attacks confirmed"
http://www.suntimes.com/terror/stories/cst-fin-trade21.html
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"CBOE probes reports of unusual trading before attacks" http://www.suntimes.com/terror/stories/18cboe.html
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"Brokerage Firms Across America look for suspicious trading: German gov't freezes 214 accounts suspected with having ties with the terrorists"
This mentions list of 38 companies being investigated by the SEC. However, the SEC won't talk about it. Source- public radio show: "Market Place."
http://www.marketplace.org/shows/2001/10/papertrail_02.html

Here's a link I obtained from this article which mentions a few of the firms:
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?tf=tgam/common/FullStory.html&cf=tgam/common/FullStory.cfg&configFileLoc=tgam/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20011002&dateOffset=&hub=business&title=Business&cache_key=business&current_row=4&start_row=4&num_rows=1

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"Terrorists Suspected of Profiteering"
Calgary-Herald. Sunday, Sept. 23, 2001. Good fucking luck finding it online. You have to mail order their archives dating back prior to 14 days ago. If you have Lexis-Nexis (universities do) you can read the article. My sympathies.
Well, hopefully this will give you some places to begin investigating this. With it being clear that Bush told the FBI and crew to lay off Bin Laden and his family (see: article from the Times of India: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1030259305
See this too:
http://www.indymedia.org/print.php3?article_id=85496

In conclusion
Something is up in the White House. I mean, when ya figure that Bush and Bin Laden were once business partners of sorts (I will have to dig for that article, thank you)and that Bush would suck up to get Saudi Oil, you begin to wonder. Then, when Market Place, the public radio stock market reporting show which airs on my local station at six, is ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT OIL MOTIVATING THIS WAR, you have to just sit back and shit a twinkie. I AM DEAD SERIOUS. Here is the intro of the article:
"As the President and his advisors plan U.S. operations against terrorism, their first goal is, clearly, to root out Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network. Not far from their minds, though, must be America’s long-term oil interests in the region. How concerns about oil may impact how this war is fought and may explain why it started in the first place. This month on Marketplace and the Marketplace Morning Report, we'll take a look at the war against terrorism and how it relates to the politics and economics of oil." http://www.marketplace.org

Here are some additional articles I lifted of this Indymedia post, (http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=86153 ) which are also about the insider trading. I figure that this ultra concise listing of articles will cut some slack for those new to indymedia, confused by the undercover cops who write in or who just simply have a memory like a sieve!! I also, recommend reading this article, as the author also is attempting to archive other aspects of s11 which don’t add up in the media’s accounts.

The Chicago Board Options Exchange, the world's biggest options market, has joined a widening probe of whether terrorists may have profited from bearish trades in airline, insurance and brokerage stocks before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
- Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2001
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-091901trading.story


German central bank president Ernst Welteke said a study by his bank strongly points to "terrorism insider trading" not only in shares of heavily affected industries such as airlines and insurance companies, but also in gold and oil.
- Fox News, September 22, 2001
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34910,00.html


Central banks and supervisory bodies in New York and across Europe are conducting investigations into what one European central banker says are ever-clearer signs of market manipulation.
- CNN, September 24, 2001
http://fyi.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/09/24/gen.europe.shortselling/


Last week, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt said the SEC was examining all unusual trading activity of stocks most severely affected by the Sept. 11 attacks. The SEC is investigating whether people associated with the terrorists might have tried to profit from the catastrophe by engaging in risky trading strategies that would have paid big profits when airlines and other stocks plunged.
- USA Today, September 26, 2001
http://www.usatoday.com/money/general/2001-09-26-suspicious-trading.htm


SEC Probes Suspicious Trading There was unusually heavy trading in airline and other affected stocks several days before the attacks, essentially betting on a coming decline in their value.
- Washington Post, October 2, 2001
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59537-2001Oct2.html


The Wall Street Journal reported on October 2 that the ongoing investigation by the SEC into suspicious stock trades had been joined by a Secret Service probe into an unusually high volume of five-year US Treasury note purchases prior to the attacks. The Treasury note transactions included…A SINGLE $5 BILLION TRADE.
- The Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2001
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/oct2001/bond-o05.shtml


"To date, there are no flags or indicators" showing that terrorists used trading strategies known as "short selling" to profit from the attacks, Dennis Lormel, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's financial crimes unit, told a congressional committee on Oct. 3. Some experts now say they doubt that such a scheme took place. What appears to be suspicious activity in some stocks may turn out to have been legitimate trading, they say.
- Los Angeles Times, October 18, 2001
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000083041oct18.story

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