wow may have been amazingly preceptive when she initiated the long thread being continued here. She stated there, [M]y instinct is to 'follow the money'"

The following excerpt is from
http://chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0109220020sep22.story?coll=chi-newsopinion-hed

possible manipulations of the options market …Securities regulators throughout the world, and particularly in Chicago, are investigating whether Osama bin Laden or people in his terrorist network played the options markets to make millions of dollars in profits as a result of the Sept. 11 attacks. The key to these windfalls would have been the terrorists' knowledge that the attacks would be taking place

If this conspiracy is proved--and it has not been yet-- …

The securities investigations are focusing on unusually heavy short-selling or trading of put options of stocks of AMR (parent of American Airlines), UAL (parent of United Airlines), Citigroup and others during the days preceding the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. After the attacks, these stocks nose-dived and those involved in these transactions stood to make huge profits. It may be pure coincidence, unusually lucky betting--or advance knowledge that the attacks would take place.

Though some of the probe revolves around Chicago's exchanges, there is also evidence that similar manipulations took place at exchanges elsewhere in the world.

Maybe the terror profiteers, if they exist, were savvy enough to cover their tracks. But it's also possible they left a paper path right to their door.