[11th Earl of Mar]

What are they gonna do? Bust him for insider trading?

[Clinton's a liar]

Thank you for the great post. This could be a real piece of evidence against the perp.

[Kermit]

Very interesting, the ascetic, anti-capitalist, anti-materialist Bin Laden is short selling stocks, while his ascetic, puritan, suicide hijacker-bombers are getting lap-dances at an evil strip club the night before their operation. This is the kind of stuff that makes for great propaganda in the Muslim world. They're hero is making money off his suicide bombers, who are sexual perverts. Attention psyops at CNN.

[follow your bliss]

This whole episode appears inspired by the (excellent) Tom Clancy book 'Debt of Honor'.

If so, we had better watch out for 'friendly fire accidents' (Sunburn antiship missiles?) from supposed allies during coming military maneuvers.

Perhaps Mr. Clancy can provide some creative input to our strategic planners--ala his alter ego, Jack Ryan. It was brilliant how the bad guys were finally handled in the subsequent book, 'Executive Orders'.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Here's hoping the SOB only had Salon.com stock.

[the crow]

As a former stock trader, this occurred to me a few days ago. Very logical, if you think it through. You endeavor to crush our country and the market at the same time.

While I have not participated in the markets for a while, over the past week or two they seemed 'heavy', like someone was 'leaning' on then. [Kind of like the Hunts and the silver market in reverse.] I had even printed charts on Monday, to look at later. It was eerie when I found them again on Wed morning.

Good post. Glad someone is looking at this. Could well be a smoking gun.

[The Raven]

On Sept 11- Fox's finacial analyst Neil Cavuto -- shortly after the attack -- said that there was a strange sequence of events shortly before the markets closed - oil prices were going up and the dollar was taking a hit.

Because of that - I was convince we were dealing with a nation-state (Saddam) - as I was watching the unbelievable.