Remembering September 10, 2001:

[Minstrel Boy]

Thanks, as always, to Paul Thompson, from whose timeline most of this is culled, and also to Michael Ruppert

The last day for suspicious trading on American and United Airlines. Today, three years ago, the Chicago Exchange sees the purchase of 4,516 put options re American, to only 748 call - 60 times above normal. On the Pacific Exchange, the trading ratio on United is 25 times greater than normal. Investigators can't help but notice later that no other airlines saw such trading in their put options. Analyst John Kinnucanone, quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle, said "I saw put-call numbers higher than I've ever seen in 10 years of following the markets, particularly the options market."

The last day for suspicious trading on Morgan Stanley, one of the World Trade Center's largest tenants. Between Sept. 7 and Sept. 10, the company experiences an increase of 27 times in the purchase of put options on its shares.

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

Regarding the spike of unusual stock activity, Dylan Ratigan of Bloomberg says on Sept 20, "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."

Germany's Bundesbank chief, Ernst Weltke tells Agence France Presse on Sept 22 that "bizarre" fiscal transactions prior to the attacks could not have been chalked up to coincidence. The stock activity "could not have been planned and carried out without a certain knowledge, particularly heavy trading in oil and gold futures."

According to CBS News, on the afternoon of September 10 "alarm bells were sounding over unusual trading in the US stock options market." It is known that the CIA and many other intelligence agencies monitor stock trading in real time using Promis software.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announces that the Pentagon "cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," or one quarter of the yearly defense budget. The lead story on many newscasts that night, it is buried by the events of the following day.

Mohammed Atta calls Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the operational planner of 9/11, and receives final approval for the attacks. The call is monitored and translated by the US, though how quickly is unknown, as are the contents of the conversation.

Two Arabic messages sent from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan are intercepted by the National Security Agency, which state "the match is about to begin" and "tomorrow is zero hour." The NSA claims they were not translated until September 12.

As reported in Newsweek, on September 10 a number of senior Pentagon officials cancel their commercial flights for the following morning due to security considerations.

Eight hours before the attacks, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown receives a warning advising him not to fly to New York the next morning.

A FEMA team arrives in New York City for the "Tripod II" bioterror exercise. Before the 9/11 commission, Rudy Giuliani acknowledged that the FEMA camp was already in place to receive victims of the attack, and was larger and better equipped than the NYC terror response unit that was lost in the collapse of WTC building 7.

[IdaBriggs]

1. Kick. Nominate. Grieve. nt

[Bluebear]

16. kick

[madinmaryland]

2. Correction . .

I was an employee of Merrill Lynch on 9/10/2001 and on 9/11/2004 I was surveying a property and the telecommunications requirements for ML on Wall Street. At the time, ML had no presence in the World Trade Center. ML was the largest tenant of the World Financial Center, located across West Street from the former location of the World Trade Center.

[Minstrel Boy]

3. Noted, confirmed and corrected.

Thanks.

[strategery blunder]

15. Wasn't the World Financial Center closed for a time after Sept. 11?

Edit: That would put a kink in ML's operations.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. The cover of Newsweek: "The Secret Vote That Made Bush President"...

with a close-up of George Bush.

The cover of the next issue: a picture of three firemen raising our flag among the ruins of the World Trade Center, and the words, "God Bless America."

[Nashyra]

5. Ok think about this if the * had made it known to the airlines

about the fucking and yes I using the word fucking PDB on Aug 6th then maybe just maybe the fucking almost never before seen trading on the airline just prior would have raised a red flag. Maybe they could not have "imagined" an airliner flying into the buildings, but they sure could have hell warned the airlines of "increased threat" to potential highjackings. Any highjacking is serious, it what was came after the highjacking that was unusual. The higjacking itself should have never happend in the first place and the PDB had the potential to put the airlines a higher state of alertLIKE THEY WERE PUT ON FOR THE MILLINEIUM.

[nyhuskyfan]

9. They didn't have to imagine...

There was a plot to hijack a plane and fly it into the Eiffel Tower in 1996. There was a plot to hicjack a plane and fly it into CIA Headquarters in the 1990's. There was a plot to hijack a plane and fly it into the convention at Genoa in early 2001.

There was also the warning from Egyptian intelligence in the summer of 2001 that 20 Al Qaeda members were in the United States on a suicide mission taking flight lessons.

There was also the plot to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993.

Then there's the PDB on August 6, that says that Bin Laden was detemined to strike in the United States.

Then there's the "System Blinking Red" all summer.

And when George W Bush, President of the United States, heard that a plane flew into the World Trade Center, he thought, "Wow. That must have been a bad pilot."

I guess Georgie never played "connect the dots" as a child.

[DeepModem Mom]

6. And an eerie e-mail from a college student child, received September 10...

Thought this was interesting...came from the Off Campus Study office and
went to all students...


Subject: World Wide Advisory - September 10, 2001

Worldwide Caution - Public Announcement
September 7, 2001

Over the last several months, the U.S. Government has learned that U.S. citizens and interests abroad may be at increased risk of a terrorist action from extremist groups. In addition, we have received unconfirmed information that terrorist actions may be taken against U.S. military facilities and/or establishments frequented by U.S. military personnel in Korea and Japan. We are also concerned about information we received in May 2001 that American citizens may be the target of a terrorist threat from extremist groups with links to Usama Bin Ladin's Al-Qaida organization.

In the past, such individuals have not distinguished between official and civilian targets. As always, we take this information seriously. U.S. Government facilities worldwide remain at a heightened state of alert. U.S. citizens are urged to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness to reduce their vulnerability....

[Misunderestimator]

7. Excellent post.

nominated :thumbsup:

Amazing how this all just got buried and ignored, eh? Are there any active investigations right now re. the insider trading? And if the CIA was monitoring it and knew about it the day before, there is NO excuse why the airlines were not informed of the impending terrorist threat AND the questionable trading.

[jumpstart33]

8. Another shameless kick for a great post.

Lest we forget.

[seemslikeadream]

10. Doesn't Buzzy Krongard fit in here somewhere?

Sorry I haven't thought it through but didn't want to forget to mention it.

http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16570-2001Ma ...
But Krongard exhibited the requisite secretiveness when asked
to explain his interest in intelligence and how he came to land
a job in Tenet's inner circle. If you go back to the CIA's origins
during World War II in the Office of Strategic Services, he
explained, "the whole OSS was really nothing but Wall Street
bankers and lawyers."

Alex Brown pays $15 million to settle yield-burning case
Largest amount paid by an investment bank so far for a qui tam case
http://www.phillipsandcohen.com/CM/NewsSettlements/Pres ...


Since the Sept. 11 attacks, Krongard has traveled to Afghanistan, hiding
his facial features behind a beard. After the war in Iraq broke out in
March, he went to Baghdad to see firsthand how events were unfolding.
While inside a palace that belonged to the deposed Saddam Hussein,
Krongard had a snapshot taken of him sitting on a palace throne.

Published: August 1, 2004, Sunday
Mr. Krongard, who is 67 and is known as Buzzy, became the executive director of the
C.I.A. in March 2001. He joined the agency in February 1998 as counselor to its director in
McLean, Va. Previously, he was a chairman and chief executive of Alex.Brown & Sons, the
Baltimore investment banking firm, and a vice chairman of Bankers Trust, which purchased
Alex .Brown.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E0D7 ...

[Minstrel Boy]

11. And how about Mayo Shattuck?

Mayo Shattuck III resigned September 12, 'effective immediately', from a 3-year $30 million contract as head of the Alex (A.B) Brown unit of Deutsche Bank.
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/Mayo-Shattuck.htm


Mayo Shattuck III was the CEO of private banking and asset management for the Americas at the time of the attacks. He had been Krongard's second-in command, and was a major player in both of the bank's recent mergers. In September of 2001, he resigned from his $7 million a year position.

Where he turned up is interesting. According to his "Businessperson of the Year" profile in the Baltimore Business Journal, Shattuck was named president and CEO of Constellation Energy in what the Journal described last October as "a surprise move." Even Shattuck described it as coming "from right field." The article points out that Shattuck has no experience in the energy industry, and "lacks in-depth knowledge on many issues facing Constellation."

Constellation Energy is a major player in the nuclear power plant industry. On May 23, 2001, the head of Constellation Energy and Shattuck's predecessor, Christian Poindexter, met with Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush political advisor Karl Rove, and energy task force director Andrew Lundquist. Poindexter is quoted in The New York Times: "In my wildest dreams when I was over at the White House in March, I couldn't imagine them getting so behind us." Shattuck's appointment raises questions given Cheney's extraordinary measures to keep the dealings of his energy panel secret.
www.apfn.org/apfn/WTC_case.htm

[Octafish]

19. Buzzy fixed things so Bush wouldn't lose $ on HARKEN, too.

Remember this HARKEN mega-file, put together by the great DUer Skip Fox?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=4933&forum=DCForumID38&archive=

Here's a nice sketch of Buzzy:

Executive Director of the CIA: A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard, former head of Alex. Brown & Co., an investment bank in Baltimore, MD.  He joined the CIA three years ago as a counselor to Tenet. Before that, he helped engineer the $2.5 billion merger of Alex. Brown and Bankers Trust New York Corp. "Krongard has a fondness for extreme military-style activities. Even as a banking executive, he trained with police SWAT teams for recreation and worked out with a kung fu master."

SOURCE:

http://www.conservativeusa.org/whosonfirst-fedam.htm

If anybody can, they should know a NAZI when they see one.

[seemslikeadream]

20. Thanks for the memories, Octafish

:hi:

[Octafish]

21. You're welcome, seemslikeadream! Hey! Is this guy any relation?

Sounds like a nice job for someone connected to the "Family."



Personnel Announcement

President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate four individuals and designate one individual to serve in his administration:

EXCERPT...

The President intends to nominate Howard J. Krongard, of New Jersey, to be Inspector General of the Department of State. Mr. Krongard currently serves as Of Counsel to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, an international law firm. He previously served as General Counsel for Deloitte & Touche. Earlier in his career, Mr. Krongard served as Associate General Counsel and Member of Peat Marwick Mitchell & Company. He earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

SOURCE:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/09/20040908-13.html

[Minstrel Boy]

12. a kick, before it's Sept 11 n/t

[Zomby Woof]

13. I have flown all my life

I flew that very week... on the 8th in fact. For the first time, I was searched heavily at the metal detector, with the wand and pat-down. I chalked it up to a random thing, but in hindsight, I have always wondered... something was going on.

[Eloriel]

14. This seems like a good place for this

repost. Sorry I don't remember who posted it first, elsewhere earlier on DU.

Agency planned exercise on Sept. 11 built around a plane crashing into a building
Wed Aug 21, 7:45 PM ET
By JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Associated Press Writer
http://www.boston.com/news/packages/sept11/anniversary/wire_stories/0903_plane_exercise.htm

http://www.boston.com/news/packages/sept11/anniversary/wire_stories/0903_plane_exercise.htm

www.prisonplanet.com/agency_planned_exercise_on_sept_11_built_around_a_plane_crashing_into_a_building.htm

WASHINGTON - In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, one U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings. But the cause wasn't terrorism — it was to be a simulated accident.



Officials at the Chantilly, Virginia-based National Reconnaissance Office had scheduled an exercise that morning in which a small corporate jet would crash into one of the four towers at the agency's headquarters building after experiencing a mechanical failure.

The agency is about 4 miles (6 kilometers) from the runways of Washington Dulles International Airport.

Agency chiefs came up with the scenario to test employees' ability to respond to a disaster, said spokesman Art Haubold. No actual plane was to be involved — to simulate the damage from the crash, some stairwells and exits were to be closed off, forcing employees to find other ways to evacuate the building.

"It was just an incredible coincidence that this happened to involve an aircraft crashing into our facility," Haubold said. "As soon as the real world ( news - Y! TV) events began, we canceled the exercise."

Terrorism was to play no role in the exercise, which had been planned for several months, he said.

-- more --

[Clinton Crusader]

17. kick

still 9/10 here
:kick:

[Octafish]

18. Buzzy Krongard and HARKEN Energy

Puts and Calls is easy for Buzzboy. The guy's been making money off losers for a looooong time. Check out how Buzzy's been busy helping the psychopathic moron make money on losing business deals, like HARKEN Energy ...

9/11: the Primary Evidence

EXCERPT...

4. Evidence of Official Prior Knowledge

Soon after the 9/11 attacks, media reports were buzzing with anticipation about investigations into anomalous "short selling" of stocks. Unusual numbers of "put" options on United and American Airlines stock indicated that someone had prior inside knowledge of the attacks and was using the opportunity to make money off the event, based on the certainty that these stocks would plummet in value. However, after a couple days the issue quickly and mysteriously dropped off the media radar screen, and a much-ballyhooed SEC investigation quietly faded out of sight. Why? Perhaps because the money trail lead in the "wrong" direction! For example, a major portion of the suspicious trading was placed through a branch of Deutschebank with extensive connections to US intelligence agencies. In fact, it was chaired until 1999 by A. B. "Buzzy" Krongard, who was recently appointed by President Bush to a top position in the CIA:

http://www.copvcia.com/stories/oct_2001/krongard.html
http://www.copvcia.com/stories/dec_2001/death_profits_pt1.html
http://www.copvcia.com/stories/dec_2001/death_profits_pt2.html

The insider trading linked to the Alex Brown branch of Deutschebank was confirmed by the Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=99402

President Bush has failed to take action against crucial Middle Eastern banks suspected of terrorist money laundering. Information on shocking conflicts of interest behind this discrepancy has emerged:

There is substantial evidence suggesting that a detailed investigation into Deutschebank's connection to Islamic terrorists and 9-11 might reopen a mysteriously closed 1991 investigation of criminal insider trading connected to Harken Energy, a Houston company where George W. Bush served on the board of directors as a major stockholder with his some of his father's key campaign contributors.
. . .
In spite of mounting evidence of a number of connections between German financial giant Deutschebank and the terrorist attacks of September 11 including previously documented links to insider trading based upon events of 9/11 no press agency or government entity is questioning why certain banking institutions in Kuwait and Bahrain with deep financial ties to the Bush family have been overlooked in the Presidents supervision of a so-called "worldwide crackdown on terrorist financing."

http://www.copvcia.com/stories/dec_2001/death_profits_pt3.html

CONTINUED...

http://www.questionsquestions.net/p01_primary.html

Oh yeah. Ol Mike Rupert deserves a mighty thanks.

[Octafish]

22. Before 9-11, Bush QUASHED Saudi Terror Investigations.

That's what Bob Graham reported:

"Intelligence Matters"

Bob Graham's Political Tsunami

http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney09102004.html


That's what Greg Palast reported:

SEPTEMBER 11: WHAT YOU "OUGHT NOT TO KNOW"
DOCUMENT 199-I AND THE FBI'S WORDS TO CHILL THE SOUL

http://www.gregpalast.com/


Craig Unger knocks Bush out of the park in "The Guardian"...

'War president' Bush has always been soft on terror

His campaign says vote Republican or die - but he lets al-Qaida off the hook

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/salon/0,14779,1302307,00.html


That's something America and the World need to know.