If you think that OBL and al Qaeda tell the longshoremen what to do, you need help.:-)
No, no, nooooooooooooooo, there was ONE trader, who shorted OPTIONS, on 9/10; the SEC and the FBI was all over it it on 9/12!
If you, for one N.Y. minute, don't think/know that all of N.Y.C.'s bridges and tunnels and such, have been watch, since 9/12, the you haven't been reading N.Y.C. papers.
I wasn;t talking about shorting options and watching NY bridges and tunnels.
The kind of stock manipulation I was talking about would be buying or selling certain stocks days or weeks before they would be impacted by a terror event. For example if I had known that 9/11 was going to happen I could have dumped my GE stock before it was affected by its big insurance exposure in the World Trade Center buildings.
The Pulaski Skyway that I was talking about is in New Jersey, it is a very long elevated highway and bridge. It passes right over a major container storage site. We are currently inspecting only 6% of shipping containers. Do you not see where this could be a problem?
About longshoremen.
Yes, I know about corruption on the docks. My father was a union representative on the New York Port Council. When I was 14 he showed me Albert Anastasia's house (a big Mafioso of the 50's). I know the Mafia hated the Communists. I also think it would not be that hard to percipitate a port strike if an Islamic enemy wanted to. There are lots of ways to violate a collective agreement, and anger the workers.