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the contract for rebuilding them. Do you get the feeling there is of millions of shares of stock just prior to the terrorist acts. It was more going on than meets the eye?" hoped the business paper trail might lead to the terrorists. The Another close connection between bin Laden and the Bush fam- Times said market regulators in Germany, Japan and the US all ily is the $12-billion private international investment firm known had received information concerning the short-selling of insur- as The Carlyle Group. Although it has removed its website since ance, airlines and arms companies stock, all of which fell sharply the September 11 attacks, it is known that Carlyle directors in the wake of the attacks. include former Reagan Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, for- City of London broker and analyst Richard Crossley noted that mer Bush Secretary of State James Baker, and former Reagan someone sold shares in unusually large quantities beginning three aide and GOP operative Richard Darman. The New York Times weeks before the assault on the WTC and Pentagon. He said he reported that former President Bush was allowed to buy into took this as evidence that someone had insider foreknowledge of Carlyle's investments, which involve at least 164 companies the attacks. "What is more awful than he should aim a stiletto around the world. blow at the heart of Western financial markets?" he added. "But According to the Wall Street Journal (September 28, 2001): to profit from it. Words fail me." "George H. W. Bush, the father of President Bush, works for the The US Government also admitted it was investigating short- bin Laden family business in Saudi Arabia selling which evinced a foreknowledge of through The Carlyle Group, an international the tragedy. There was unusually heavy consulting firm." It has been confirmed by trading in airline and insurance stocks sev- the senior Bush's chief of staff that Bush eral days before September 11, which sent a thank-you note to the bin Laden fam- essentially bet on a drop in the worth of the ily after a social visit in early 2001. " stocks. It was reported by the With such connections and a son as a sit- l am absolutely Interdisciplinary Center, a counterterrorism ting President ov the United States. the convinced that the think-tan k involving former "sraeli intelli senior Bush and his Carlyle involvement . gence officers, that insiders made nearly were questioned by Larry Klayman, chair- Central Intelligence US$16 million profit by short-selling shares man and general counsel of Judicial Watch, Agency had complete in American and United Airlines, the two who said: "Any foreign government or for- airlines that suffered hijacking, and the eign investor trying to curry favor with the and perfect investment firm of Morgan Stanley, which current Bush administration is sure to throw foreknowledge of the occupied 22 floors of the World Trade business to The Carlyle Group. And with Center. the former President Bush promoting attacks, down to the Apparently none of the suspicious transactions could be traced to bin Laden because this news item quietly dropped from sight, leaving many people wondering if they tracked back to American firms or intelligence agencies. According to Michael C. Ruppert, these transactions were handled pri- marily by Deutsche Bank-A. B. Brown, a firm which until 1998 was chaired by A. B. "Buzzy" Krongard, who today is Executive Director of the CIA. Besides Krongard, other the firm's investments abroad, foreign nationals could understandably con- fuse The Carlyle Group's interests with the interests of the United States Government." After detailing some of the Carlyle/bin Laden investments in sev- eral businesses including aerospace industries, web writer and former LA policeman Michael C. Ruppert com- mented: "In other words, Osama bin Laden's attacks on the WTC and Pentagon, with the resulting massive increase in the US defense budget, prominent Americans who have been have just made his family a great big connected to both the CIA and Wall pile of money." Street power include Clark Clifford (who was a key player in What made these business dealings that entangle former and gaining legitimacy for the BCCI), John Foster Dulles and Allen current American political leaders with Middle Easterners even Dulles (Allen oversaw the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and sat on more suspect was the announcement that several US firms were the Warren Commission), Bill Casey, David Doherty, George being investigated for short-selling stocks just prior to the Herbert Walker Bush, John Deutch, Nora Slatkin and Hank date, time, place and location." — Michael C. Ruppert Editor, From The Wilderness September 11 attacks. Greenburg. As detailed in Rule by Secrecy, the CIA historically has been SHORT-SELLING INDICATES FOREKNOWLEDGE top heavy with members of the Wall Street elite who desire to Short-selling of stocks involves the opportunity to gain large advance their globalist agenda. It also operates a number of front profits by passing shares to a friendly third party, then buying companies which themselves deal in stocks and bonds. them back when the price falls. Historically, if this precedes a "Tam absolutely convinced that the Central Intelligence Agency traumatic event, it is an indication of foreknowledge. It is widely had complete and perfect foreknowledge of the attacks, down to known that the CIA uses the Promis software to routinely monitor the date, time, place and location," Ruppert told OnLine Journal stock trades as a possible warning sign of a terrorist attack or sus- on October 12. picious economic behaviour. There were other indications of foreknowledge. San Francisco A week after the September 11 attacks, the London Times Mayor Willie Brown stated that on September 10 he was warned reported that the CIA had asked regulators for the Financial by his personal "airport security" not to fly the next day, accord- Services Authority in London to investigate the suspicious sales ing to radio station KSFO. "Lam absolutely convinced that the Agency had complete and perfect foreknowledge of the attacks, down to the date, time, place and location." SHORT-SELLING INDICATES FOREKNOWLEDGE Short-selling of stocks involves the opportunity to gain large profits by passing shares to a friendly third party, then buying them back when the price falls. Historically, if this precedes a traumatic event, it is an indication of foreknowledge. It is widely known that the CIA uses the Promis software to routinely monitor stock trades as a possible warning sign of a terrorist attack or sus- picious economic behaviour. A week after the September 11 attacks, the London Times reported that the CIA had asked regulators for the Financial Services Authority in London to investigate the suspicious sales 18 = NEXUS Central Intelligence www.nexusmagazi ne.com DECEMBER 2001 — JANUARY 2002