The CIA supposedly monitors these kinds of unusual stock transactions..
Yes, and no.. It's my understanding that FinCen and the SEC (and affiliated agencies within the Federal Reserve handling the financial settlements for such transactions) work to piece together a financial paper trail of such transactions and who, how, and why they were enacted. But that's not sufficient proof unless the party can be directly linked to terrorist organizations or some kind of foreknowledge of the attack.
But you are FINALLY tracking on something that, imo, is very pertinent to unraveling the financial connections between these organizations and who stood to gain from it. And I have little doubt that we're doing just that.
And should we find some other sinister "James Bondish-like" evil conspiracy similar to the fictitious "S.P.E.C.T.R.E", I kinda doubt we'll handle them through legal means. I dare say they will be handled covertly, and with "extreme prejudice". At least I hope that will be the case, since a bullet is far less expensive than a minute of legal billing time spent to prosecute them.
To date, the identity of the person or persons, who were involved in these option and stock transactions, have not been made public.
Nor should they since this is a criminal investigation and tipping off other parties that certain individuals are under scrutiny might compromise getting all the facts.
It was also reported that a $2,500,000 profit from one of the option trades has not been claimed by the person who made that trade.
This is one of the smoking guns that I'm sure someone is looking at closely. The problem is it, lacking public information, few of us can make any analysis as to whether it was a person, or corporate entity acting as a front, which made the unclaimed transaction.
And if was made through an off-shore entity such as a channel islands account, it may be difficult to discover who the actual individual is that is responsible for the transaction. Theoretically, it could be a rogue trader, privy to such information and acting as a facilitator for these terror groups, that made the trade, using some unwitting comporation or bank he worked for as his/her vehicle.
It may seem easy Alientech, but the legalities can be quite complex, especially with regard to convincing government officials to violate their domestic banking privacy laws to provide such information to the US. That generally requires political pressure and hard evidence of wrong-doing. And providing such hard evidence may cause the US to reveal "sources and methods" it would much rather keep secret.
As to why people were permitted to make phone calls, it's pretty clear. The hijackers wanted the world to know that the planes had been hijacked. Why keep that a secret?
What's a more compelling question is whether those hijackers keeping the passengers at bay, really knew that they were on a one-way mission or merely conducting a hijacking from which they might negotiate their way out of.
The case remains open on that... and we'll likely never know.
Btw, Ariana airlines doesn't fly 767s..
In fact, the only airplane they apparently still have in their fleet is a VERY old 727.
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