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There were very suspicious stock trades in the weeks leading up to 9/11, suggesting that the terrorists had purchased put options in stocks relating to 9/11 with the knowledge that their stock prices would fall. The purchases strongly suggest foreknowledge of specific details about the attacks. The occurrence of such an imbalance occurring by fluke would be extremely rare. The low probability of these trades occurring without foreknowledge cannot be brushed off as yet another bazaar coincidence that occurred on 9/11. The Chicago Tribune reported that on “Sept. 6, put volume on United Airlines was 3,150, more than four times its average daily put volume this year, according to data from the Options Clearing Corp. Put volume for Boeing on Sept. 7 totaled 27,294, more than five times its average daily put volume this year. The day before the attacks, put volume on American Airlines stock was 4,516, nearly 11 times its average daily volume for the year. The insurance industry, also expected to be hard hit by the effects of the terrorist attacks, saw similar plays on its put options. Citigroup, which has a large insurance arm, and insurance broker Marsh & McLennan Cos. experienced extraordinarily high put volumes just days before the attacks.” [42] Sources told CBS News that “they have never seen that kind of imbalance before” [43] .

The only suspicious airline trades that occurred were the two companies whose planes were hijacked on 9/11. Marsh occupied the exact floors that were impacted in the North Tower . Citigroup had incriminating files destroyed in the collapse of WTC 7. The 9/11 commission report deals with this anomaly by declaring that “some unusual trading did in fact occur, but each such trade proved to have an innocuous explanation” and that “further investigation has revealed that the trading had no connection with 9/11. A single U.S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda purchased 95 percent of the UAL puts on September 6 as part of a trading strategy that also included buying 115,000 shares of American on September 10. Similarly, much of the seemingly suspicious trading in American on September 10 was traced to a specific U.S.-based options trading newsletter, faxed to its subscribers on Sunday, September 9, which recommended these trades. These examples typify the evidence examined by the investigation.” [44]

This example is typical of the 9/11 Commission’s pre-determined conclusion that the attacks were committed solely by Al Qaeda. They concluded that the trades must have been a strange coincidence because “ U.S. -based” institutions could not have possibly had foreknowledge of the attacks.

[42] Chicago Tribune. Terrorist Trade Probe Widens. By Robert Manor and Melissa Allison. September 19th, 2001. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/chi-0109190296sep19,0,...

[43] CBS News. Profiting From Disaster? September 19th, 2001. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/09/19/eveningnews/main311834.shtml

[44] The 9/11 Commission Final Report. Notes to Chapter 5. Page 499. http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf

Kevin Barrett profiled in Anderson Cooper CNN blog:

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Judge: FBI must correct disclosures on evacuation of Saudis after 9/11
A U.S. district court judge has ordered the FBI to correct disclosures regarding the US government's evacuation of Saudi royals and bin Laden family members after the September 11 attacks in 2001, a conservative, non-partisan group announced today.

"Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Richard W. Roberts of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to submit 'proper disclosures' to the Court and Judicial Watch by December 15, 2006 concerning the U.S. government's evacuation of Saudi royals and members of the bin Laden family from the United States immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks," the group said in a press release obtained by RAW STORY.

Judicial Watch notes that Judge Roberts criticized "the adequacy of redaction descriptions, the accuracy of the sworn statement submitted with the documents, the validity of exemption claims, and other errors in the FBI’s disclosures.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Judge_orders_FBI_to_correct_disclosure...