16May/02Off
Bush under fire over terror alert
BBC News: Bush under fire over terror alert
"Their comments come after the White House acknowledged that President Bush was told a month before 11 September of a plot to hijack American planes by Osama Bin Laden."
That explains why so much airline stock was sold short right around the attacks.



May 16th, 2002 - 14:48
At 06:37 PM 5/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>That explains why so much airline stock was sold short right around the
>attacks.
That was even more bizarre than some of Don Larson’s post-9/11 comments.
May 16th, 2002 - 14:52
On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 03:48 PM, Brian Carnell wrote:
> That was even more bizarre than some of Don Larson’s post-9/11 comments.
How so? A large amount of stock was traded just before the attacks.
Now we know that there were people who knew there would be hijackings.
Not necessarily plane-missiles, but hijackings that would surely affect
the stock price.
Jim