>From: Steve Middlebrook <STM at AOL.COM>
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>In a message dated 9/20/01 7:24:11 PM, hallam at AI.MIT.EDU writes:
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> > Options trading volume is small
> >compared to equity trading and a relatively small number of trades would
> >stick out like a sore thumb.
>
>Today's Wash Post reports that in fact what the feds are looking iat s
>options trading and not shares "sold short." Apparently a lot of this occurs
>on the after-hours market because besides the SEC, the CFTC is involved.
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59609-2001Sep19.html
>
>The other thing to remember is that if such trades were going on, they
>don't necessarily have to be Bin Laden. There must be other folks who
>know enough about the conspiracy to guess that betting against US Airline
>stocks would be profitable and who wouldn't be above making a personal
>profit on the jihad. If I remember right, one of the guys who testified
>in the 1993 WTC was a guy who had embezzled money from the terrorists.
>
>stm