According to the Times of London, the CIA has asked financial regulators in the UK to investigate the suspicious short-selling of millions of shares of stocks in companies likely to be hurt by the Attack on America in the weeks prior to the attack.

There was unusual short-selling activity in airlines, arms manufacturers, retailers, insurance companies and others likely to suffer from the attack. This short-selling began approximately three weeks before the attack itself, and reached a crescendo on Friday, September 8.
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Mohammed Atta, who is suspected of being one of the hijackers aboard the first plane that struck the World Trade Center on Tuesday, met earlier this year with an Iraqi intelligence official in Europe, according to a U.S. government source.

Former CIA Director James Woolsey has been very public about his belief that the high degree of coordination involved in the attack suggested a state sponsor such as Iraq must be involved. But one U.S. official said there was no clear evidence that any specific country was behind the plot.
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Last week I attended a typical charity dinner, celebrating the raising of $15 million to make needed additions and renovations to San Fernando Cathedral here in San Antonio. It was an ecumenical event and ministers from several faiths stood up and gave speeches. I noticed how nervous the local Muslim cleric looked and thought he was courageous to have come. After I got home, I discovered that a popular nearby Persian restaurant had its glass door smashed in by vandals.

This made me reflect on how Tuesday’s terrorism is being touted as a religious act by the perpetrators. This gives rise to an automatic reaction in those of us who are under attack: we hate the religion that is terrorizing us.
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Where do terrorists come from? How can you convince someone to commit suicide in order to kill innocent civilians, by strapping on a bomb or piloting an airplane into a building? An English school librarian who witnessed Muslim pupils celebrating the terrorist atrocities in America says she believes that fundamentalists who follow an extreme form of Islam are deliberately brainwashing Asian children.

The librarian says she saw 15-year-old pupils cheering and chanting anti-American slogans when one of their classmates walked into a room, punching the air and shouting about the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. ?I was sickened,? she says. ?I thought, ?Dear God, how can they behave like this??
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