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Were the unusual trades being monitored by the CIA?

From the Wildeness magazine noted, "It has been documented that the CIA, the Israeli Mossad and many other intelligence agencies monitor stock trading in real time using highly advanced programs reported to be descended from Prosecutor's Management Informational System (PROMIS) Software. This software can be used to alert national intelligence services of irregularities in the markets that might predict attacks such as the ones that happened on 9-11. PROMIS was reported as recently as June 2001 to be in Osama bin Laden's possession, and as a result of recent stories by FOX, both the FBI and the Justice Department have confirmed its use for the U.S. intelligence gathering through at least this summer. This would confirm that the CIA had additional advance warning of imminent attacks."
---Quoted from the Wilderness Timeline. http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/02-11_02_lucy.html .

Detailed info on Promis Software available at From the Wilderness 5/24/01 http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/pandora/052401_promis.html

From the Wilderness 12/06/01 http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3 /12 06 01death_proffts_ptl.html

The Canadian daily reported that U.S. authorities apprehended many of the suspected terrorists "through use of the state-of-the?art computer software program PROMIS."
---From the Wilderness 12/06/01
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/12_06_01_ death_profits_pt1.html

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Ernst Welteke, president of the Bundesbank, was quoted by the London Telegraph [Telegraph, 9/23/01 http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/23/widen23.xml ] as saying, "There are ever clearer signs that there were activities on international financial markets that must have been carried out with the necessary expert knowledge." And the Miami Herald reported that according to Mr. Welteke, "his researchers came across what he considers aimost irrefutable proof of insider trading." 9/24/01
http://web.archive.org/web/20011109160700/www.miami. com/herald/special/news/worldtrade/digdocs/099922.htm He was also quoted in the New York Times saying, "There have been fundamental movements in these markets, and the oil price rise just ahead of the attacks is otherwise inexplicable"
---New York Times 9/29/01

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John Kinnucan, a principal of Broadband Research, an independent telecommunications research firm, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "I saw put "call numbers higher than I've ever seen in 10 years of following the markets, particularly the options markets. When one sees this type of activity, the first thing one does is ask oneself, "What is the explanation? What are people worried about??"
---San Francisco Chronicle, 9/19/01
http://www.sfgate.com/cgibin/article.egi?file=/chronicle/archive/2OGi/09/19/BU184559.DTL

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Jonathan Winer, an ABC News consultant stated, "It's absolutely unprecedented to see cases of insider trading covering the entire world from Japan, to the U.S., to North America, to Europe."
---cited in From the Wilderness 4/22/02 http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/042202-bushknows.html

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Don Radlauer, an expert in electronic banking and cash management, pointed out, "No similar trading in other airlines occurred on the Chicago exchange in the days immediately preceding Black Tuesday."
---The International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism 9/21/01
http://www.ict.org.il/articlesiarticledet.cfm?articleid=386

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Dylan Ratigan of Bloomberg Business News, in a Sept. 20 interview on Good Morning Texas, said, "This could very well be insider trading at the worst, most horrific, most evil use you've ever seen in your entire life. This would be one of the most extraordinary coincidences in the history of mankind if it was a coincidence."
---From the Wilderness 5/16/02
http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/051602?_liewontstand.html ##

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Brokerage firms through which the trades were conducted:

The Independent of London reported that to "the embarrassment of investigators, it has also emerged that the firm used to buy many of the 'put' options ...on United Airlines stock was headed until 1998 by 'Buzzy' Krongard, now executive director of the CIA." The paper explained, "Until 1997, Mr Krongard was chairman of Alex Brown Inc, America's oldest investment banking firm. Alex Brown was acquired by Bankers Trust, which in turn was bought by Deutsche Bank. His last post before resigning to take his senior role in the CIA was to head Bankers Trust, Alex Brown's private client business, dealing with the accounts and investments of wealthy customers around the world."
---Independent, 10/14/01
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp'story=99402

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On September 29, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that a "source familiar with the [United] trades and market data" identified "Deutsche Banc Alex Brown, the American investment banking arm of German giant Deutsche Bank, as the investment bank used to purchase at least some of the options." The same source told the newspaper, "Investors have yet to collect more than $2.5 million in profits they made trading options in the stock of United Airlines before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks."
---San Francisco Chronicle, 9/29/01
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/ archive/2001/09/29/MN186128.DTLhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/ archive/2001/09/29/MN186128.DTL

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Tom Flocco, an independent investigative journalist, reported on July 16, 2002, "European reporters found that most of the suspicious pre-attack trades passed through Deutschebank and especially via CIA Executive Director A.B. Krongard's former Alex Brown investment division by means of a procedure called portage, which assures the anonymity of individuals making the transactions. But Congress has not publicly revealed whether they will call Krongard and other Alex Brown traders to testify in open hearings, or whether they will subpoena the pre-attack documents in question."
---Flocco 7/16/02
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0207/S00l19.htm

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Unusual trading in the stocks of companies that were tenants in the World Trade Center:

Morgan Stanley; Dean Witter & Co. (An investment bank that had occupied 22 floors in the World Trade Center)

The Independent of London reported that "In the first week of September, an average of 27 put option contracts was bought each day" for shares of Morgan Stanley. "The total for the three days before the attacks was 2,157."
---Independent, 10/14/01
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp'story=99402

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Merrill Lynch & Co. (A major bank whose headquarters were in the World Trade Center)

The Independent of London reported that Merrill Lynch, reportedly "saw 12,215 put options bought in the four days before the attacks, when the previous days had seen averages of 252 contracts a day."
---Independent, 10/14/01
http://riews.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp'story=99402

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Statistics for both Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch

Trading volume in Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch put options surged "12 times to more than 25 times" in the days preceding the Sept. 11 attacks.
---Bloomberg 9/18/02
http://www.themodernreligion.com/terror/wtc-unusualtrading.html

9/19/02
http://www.suntimes.com/terror/stories/cst-fin-optlg.html

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Unusual trading 'in the stocks of a reinsurance company which lost billions as a result of the 9/11 attacks:

Reuters, 9/20/01 http://www.completetime?line/2001/reutersO92001.html reported that according to German bankers, there had been "brisk activity" in the trading of shares of Munich Re during the weeks leading up to the attacks. The company announced in late September that is stood to lose about $1.95 billion as a result of 9/11. Its shares also fell significantly lower after the Sept. 11 tragedy.
---Dow Jones Business News, 9/20/01
http://www.completetimeline/2001/dowjonesO92001.html

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The stocks of numerous other companies may also have been traded by people possessing advanced knowledge of the attacks:

The Securities and Exchange Commission published a list that included the names of some 38 companies whose stocks may have been traded by people with advance knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks. In addition to the companies already mentioned above, the list included General Motors Corp., Raytheon Co, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Lehman Brothers; Bank of America, Marsh & McLennan, Continental, Delta, Northwest, Southwest, US Airways, Carnival Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, American International Group, AXA, Chubb, Cigna, CNA Financial, John Hancock and MetLife, 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.
---San Francisco Chronicle 10/3/01 http://www.sfgata.com/cgibin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/10/03/BU187948.DTL

AP 10/3/01
http://www.detnews.com/2001/business/0110/03/bO3308879.htm

AP 10/4/01
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/wot/sec.htm

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Suspicious trading also occurred in the bond market:

The Wall Street Journal [Wall Street Journal, 10/2/01. [http://www.completetimeline/2001/wallstreetjournallOO20l.html ] reported, "Investigators from the U.S. Secret Service contacted a number of bond traders regarding large purchases of five-year Treasury notes before the attacks, according to people familiar with the probe. The investigators, acting on a tip from traders, are examining whether terrorists, or people affiliated with terrorist organizations, bought five-year notes, including a single $5 billion trade, the people say." The Journal added, "Five-year Treasury notes are among the best investments in the event of a world crisis."

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Countries where these trades were executed.

Singapore, Hong Kong, Italy, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Germany and Canada.
---Centre for Research on Globalisation 4/21/02
http://globalresearch.ca/arficles/HEN204B.html

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Brokerages used.

TD Waterhouse, NFS, Alex Brown/Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, and several others.
---Centre for Research on Globalisation 4/21/02 http://globalresearch.ca/articles/HEN204B.html

CBS News, 9/19/03 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/09/19/eveningnews/main3ll834.shtml

The 9/11 thing wasn't a conspiracy. Only tools like President Ahmadinejad of Iran believe that. We ALL know Bush Jnr and Co took advantage of it, there;s no secret about that, but they didn't need to plan it beforehand. Sure and sure they'd have been able to go ahead with the invasion of Iraq in the end regardless of 9/11 anyway.
For some reason people rarely ever talk about the REAL and OBVIOUS conspiracy to invade Iraq- with all those mountains of lies and fake evidence about WMD. That was an actual, real, genuine, in-the-flesh, 100% true conspiracy...
And yet people would rather focus on this tin-foil hat rubbish about 9/11! It baffles me! WTF is wrong with people?

It's like actually having real aliens landing somewhere and introducing themselves, and being ignored because people are more interested in talking about their abduction butt-probe fantasies.

So out of honest curiosity what is the conspiracy theory? Is it that the planes didn't do all the destruction -- or that the planes were rigged with specific explosives that did more destruction than just jet fuel alone would have done -- or is it that somehow the whole thing was a bomb set off inside or under the buildings and the planes and the hijackers were just for show? Or is it simply that our government while under the control of Dick Cheney pretty much told us nothing about any issues of domestic or foreign policy and shot or bribed or killed anybody who did try to tell us what was going on?

I pretty much know/figured that September 11th was a set-up to get us into a war with Iraq and to control oil prices and futures but I am really curious to know what the deal is with Building 7 and the massive amount of destruction that the planes themselves could not have caused.

There was a cover-up of 9.11. Maybe not an "inside job" but a substantial cover up for sure. We were not told the entire truth. heck, no one before being confronted with the fact of building 7, even knows it fell at all. zero coverage. Why? and don't say national security. As Immortal technique says it "government ties is really why the government lies.

Huffington post is one of the most censored website on the Net

Not even good enough to pass the huffington post standards, damn thats gotta sting.

The worst part of this article is when it referenced the war on drugs as a conspiracy theory. Gimme a break.

The war on drugs is an affirmation of the dysfunction caused by the war on drugs. Sure, maybe there are conspiracy theories about the war on drugs but there are a lot of legitimate stories and scientific studies done on the problems with the war on drugs.

Huffington does stories on 9/11, they just usually involve a specific case or instance of corruption. The problem is when the article takes a turn for crazy town are they to do nothing.

I am sure if the story was better written and referenced it would have been fine, instead of endless drivel from the mind of a man truly affected by the Truther movement. Last time I check they had the right to remove stories that they think are useless, even articles written by celebrities.

fucked up........ we will never find out what really happened. everyone is scared to question authority. you question and you are not a patriot. i dont think our country was founded w/o questioning authority.

Jesse Ventura isn't talking about any conspiracies theories. He's merely reporting on a petition that was signed by more than one thousand architects and engineers. And they aren't talking about conspiracies only about evidence that has been ignored. While I don't believe that 9/11 was an inside job you can't just ignore stories like this. Huffington Post should have printed the article and then found someone else to dispute what is being alleged.

good article... pretty nuts