9/11 Families' Fight Goes On

[maddezmom]

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"We also believe that they did not take it as seriously as it should be taken. It was not their top priority," Thomas Kean, the Republican chairman, said at a news conference with members of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. "We do believe both presidents could have done more in this area."

The panel warned "we are not safe" — and called for major intelligence changes, like a national counterterrorism center and a Cabinet-level national intelligence director to centralize efforts now spread over 15 agencies in six Cabinet departments, including the CIA.

"Every expert with whom we spoke told us an attack of even greater magnitude is now possible and even probable," Kean said. "We do not have the luxury of time."

All of the roughly 30 Sept. 11 family members who attended the hearing saw the report as a call to action.

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more:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/23/terror/main631447.shtml

[Nashyra]

1. Has anyone heard if the the stock manipulation of American

or United was even mentioned in the report?

[maddezmom]

2. link: No Profiting Found From 9/11 Attacks

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/23/politics/23sec.html?ex=1091246400&en=8a4372c04170bd59&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1

[nolabels]

3. I don't know about the report (kind of doubt it , after reading this)

The Case for Bush Administration Advance Knowledge of 9-11 Attacks

by Michael C. Ruppert

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INSIDER TRADING

The documented pre-Sept. 11 insider trading that occurred before the attacks involved only companies hit hard by the attacks. They include United Airlines, American Airlines, Morgan Stanley, Merrill-Lynch, Axa Reinsurance, Marsh & McLennan, Munich Reinsurance, Swiss Reinsurance, and Citigroup.

In order to argue that the massive and well-documented insider trading that occurred in at least seven countries immediately before the attacks of Sept. 11 did not serve as a warning to intelligence agencies, then it is necessary to argue that no one was aware of the trades as they were occurring, and that intelligence and law enforcement agencies of most industrialized nations do not monitor stock trades in real time to warn of impending attacks. Both assertions are false. Both assertions would also ignore the fact that the current executive vice president of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) for enforcement is David Doherty, a retired CIA general counsel. And also ignored is the fact that the trading in United Airlines stock -- one of the most glaring clues -- was placed through the firm Deutschebank/Alex Brown, which was headed until 1998 by the man who is now the executive director of the CIA, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard.

One wonders if it was a coincidence then, that Mayo Shattuck III, the head of the Alex Brown unit of Deutschebank -- which had its offices in the WTC -- suddenly resigned from a $30 million, three-year contract on Sept. 12, as reported by the New York Times and other papers.

The American exchanges that handle these trades, primarily the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE) and the NYSE, know on a daily basis what levels of put options are purchased. "Put options" are highly leveraged bets, tying up blocks of stock, that a given stock's share price will fall dramatically. To quote 60 Minutes from Sept. 19, "Sources tell CBS News that the afternoon before the attack, alarm bells were sounding over unusual trading in the U.S. stock options market."
It is hard to believe that they missed:
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http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/042202_bushknows.html

[Gyre]

4. Verrry interesting link!

Thanks. :)

Gyre