Attack Foreknowledge

Actions Reveal Widespread Advance Knowledge of the Attack

Several events immediately preceding the September 11th attacks suggests many people other than Islamic extremists anticipated the attack. These include the following:

• Extremely large purchases of put options on stocks of American Airlines, United Airlines, and other companines hurt by the attack
• A surge in financial transactions on computers in the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11/01
• Avoidance of the airlines and New York City on September 11th by a number of important people, some admitting to having been warned of an attack
• The behavior of five Israelis who appeared to be celebrating the attack on the World Trade Center as they filmed it from across the Hudson
• Donald Rumsfeld's disclosure on the eve of 9/11 that the Pentagon had lost over 2 trillion dollars
• A warning received by Rudolph Giuliani that the South Tower would collapse ten minutes before the event
• The privatization of the World Trade Center six weeks before the attack