IMHO; The pending potential horror of random terrorist bombings, back-alley beheadings, suicide subway bombers, Serin gas and/or Iranian plutonium suitcase Nuke attacks in New York City could absolutely wreck our financial and trading markets to a greater extent than the Fannie-Freddie, legally-blind SEC, proven-incompentant FED, AIG, Lehman, Madoff, general Steerter Greed Mob, and TARP fiasco have managed to accomplish so far........
Here's what former Mayor Giuliani thinks (..makes me wonder why we haven't hear from Mayor Bloomberg - perhaps he's too rich and well protected to care..):
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Giuliani Criticizes Plan to Try 9/11 ‘Mastermind’
By JOSEPH BERGER
Published: November 15, 2009
Rudolph W. Giuliani, mayor of New York at the time of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, said on Sunday that the Obama administration’s decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the attacks, in a civilian court in Manhattan would unnecessarily cost millions of dollars for security, create legal advantages for the defense and symbolically deny that the United States is at war with terrorism.
“It gives an unnecessary advantage to the terrorists and why would you want to give an advantage to the terrorists, and it poses risks for New York,” Mr. Giuliani said in an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.” He also interviewed on ABC’s “This Week” and “Fox News Sunday.”
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced on Friday that the United States would try Mr. Mohammed in the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, just blocks from where the World Trade Center towers were brought down by the attacks, which killed almost 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. Mr. Holder said that a military commission would try five other detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, because they are accused of committing crimes overseas.
Mr. Giuliani, a former prosecutor whose national profile rose after Sept. 11, ran a short-lived campaign for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination and is being talked about as a leading prospect in the 2010 New York gubernatorial race. On “This Week,” Mr. Giuliani said that he would soon decide whether he would run for governor.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, also interviewed on “This Week,” said she had no plans to run for governor and was committed to her duties as secretary of state.
Mr. Giuliani that said Mr. Mohammed and four other accused Sept. 11 co-conspirators should have also be tried by a military tribunal. But his criticism was shrugged off by Mrs. Clinton and David Axelrod, a top adviser to President Obama, in an appearance on the same program. He suggested that Mr. Giuliani was contradicting himself since he had on previous occasions voiced praise for trials for suspected terrorists in civilian courtrooms. “He may have changed his views but we haven’t changed ours,” Mr. Axelrod said.
Mr. Axelrod also pointed out that since 2001, 195 cases of terrorism have been prosecuted in civilian courts and 91 percent of them have resulted in convictions.
Mrs. Clinton, in an interview from Singapore on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said Mr. Holder’s decision, reached with the concurrence of the Department of Defense, was “comprehensively examined” and “I’m not going to second-guess.”
She noted that New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, have both said that the city would be prepared to handle any trials related to Sept. 11.
Mr. Giuliani argued that military trials were used for enemy combatants in previous wars and that “we wouldn’t have tried the people who attacked Pearl Harbor in a civilian court in Hawaii.” Allowing such trials in a civilian courtroom creates strategic opportunities, like protracted legal maneuvering and changes in venue and increases the possibility of an acquittal, he said.
“To treat this as a act like an ordinary murder that year was a mistake,” he said on “State of the Union.” “It should have been treated as an act of war.”
The decision, he said, was another example of “Barack Obama deciding we’re not at war with terrorists any more.”
“I’m concerned that we no longer believe we’re at war with Islamic terrorists when they’re at war with us,” he said. He added that the administration has been hesitant to label the Nov. 5 deadly shooting of 12 soldiers and a civilian at Fort Hood, Tex., as an act of terrorism, noting that the suspect, Nidal Malik Hasan, had printed a personal business card that used an abbreviation describing himself as a “Soldier of Allah.”
“The administration has been slow to come to the conclusion that Hasan is an Islamic terrorist,” he said on “This Week.” “These are acts of war.”
Told of Mayor Bloomberg’s blessing for the trial, Mr. Giuliani said: “We have a difference of opinion.”
The decision to try Mr. Mohammed in a civilian court was also batted around on CBS’s “Face the Nation” by Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the Democrat who heads the Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee.
Mr. Leahy, a former criminal prosecutor, praised Mr. Holder’s decision and said he did not think Mr. Mohammed would obtain an acquittal because he had been subjected to waterboarding during his interrogation.
“With the review that I’ve had of the evidence available, I have no question that they have enough evidence untainted by the waterboarding that will be admissible in court,” Mr. Leahy said. “And he will be convicted.”
Mr. Hoekstra said he feared that Mr. Mohammed and his accused co-conspirators would try to make the trial “a circus” and “use it as a platform to push their ideology.” Why, he asked, should Mr. Mohammed and the other suspects be given “the extraordinary protections that you and I have as American citizens?”
“Yes, I think that’s a bad decision,” he said.
On Sunday, Mrs. Clinton was also asked about the Obama administration’s review of its military policy in Afghanistan, which would determine how many more troops might be sent there. Asked why the decision is taking so long, Mrs. Clinton said on “This Week” that “the majority of Americans will know the president has gone the extra mile to make sure that whatever decision he makes is in the best interests of the country.”
She emphasized that the top priority is to defeat Al Qaeda, not to ensure the viabilityof the Afghanistan government: “Our highest obligation is to the American people," she said. "It is to do everything we can to make sure that America is secure, that our allies, our interests around the world are protected. And that is what we’re focused on."
She said that while it would be nice to see Afghanistan become a functioning democracy — “that could happen,” she added — the primary focus must be on enhancing American security.
“We do not want Afghanistan to return to being a safe haven for terrorism,” she said.
nytimes.com
My RECO would be "..SELL FINANCIAL STOCKS-BONDS-PAPER, BUY GOLD, BUY A BOMB SQUAD BLAST SUIT, and/or MOVE TO MONTANA.."..
NYC is clearly a ticking time bomb waiting for Al Qaeda, et al to tell it to bend over and pick up the soap..... As of the first bomb blast the DOW will tank -1000 points or more and all the other indexes will 'crash dive' in lockstep like a holed Russian sub in the Laurentian Abyss.
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