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To: Carolyn who wrote (4368)	9/24/2001 10:00:58 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 23908

Re: It is the fathers who have all the rights, and we know what the men think of females. Yeah... but then again, Carolyn, think of it: which mother wouldn't want her daughter to marry a $300 million moneybag? abcnews.go.com Excerpt: Bin Laden is said to personally control about $300 million of his family's $5 billion fortune. His role as a financier of terrorism is pivotal, experts say, because he has revolutionized the financing of extremist movements by forming and funding his own private terror network.

To: Carolyn who wrote (4368)	9/24/2001 10:50:30 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

In the same line of thought as my previous post: Financial Probes May Reveal a New Militant By Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A portrait of a new breed of violent extremist -- rich, financially savvy, global -- emerged this week from a host of investigations into the possibility that those behind the attacks on America tried to turn a grisly profit on their inside knowledge on the markets. The FBI, the market-regulating Securities and Exchange Commission, the Treasury Department and regulators in Germany, France, Japan and elsewhere are probing reports of unusual trading in stocks and put options of airlines, insurers and banks ahead of the September 11 attacks. ``There is a multi-agency effort under way, under the leadership of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but my agency is actively investigating reports of possible terrorist activity,'' said SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt at a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Thursday. Osama bin Laden, fingered by President Bush as the prime suspect in the attacks, is the heir to a Saudi construction fortune. His wealth is estimated at as much as $300 million. Experts who study Middle Eastern extremists said bin Laden or his associates may be capable of sophisticated financial speculation. Some doubted, however, whether bin Laden, holed up in the badlands of Afghanistan far from financial capitals, could have pulled off such an audacious speculation. [snip] realcities.com Well, the truth is, not only would it have been a long shot for Bin Laden to pull off such a financial trick from his Afghan dump but it just doesn't fit in with his allegedly "Muslim fanatic" mindset! I mean, Bin Laden has been branded as a hardcore Islamist all along, whose audience is made up of Muslims only. Fine, but how does he marry up his greed (to make a bundle out of his hijackings) with Koranic wisdom?? After all, Bin Laden is in the terrorism business for "The Cause", not for money.... He doesn't boodle fellow Muslims to turn them into suicide hijackers! They all basically share the same mind-frame: Bin Laden and his followers signed on for Jihad on the grounds of religion and ideology. Besides, Bin Laden is rolling in money: $300 million! So, why the hell would the guy take the trouble to make an extra million dollars?? To buy a private jet? But he's got one already: turkishpress.com Contrariwise, stockmarket shenanigans perfectly fit the Russian mafiya mindset: Russian mobsters are in for money. The sudden increase in short interest and put options on airline stocks is an important giveaway for the FBI. It further shows that the whole hijacking scheme was initially devised as a low-key hijacking operation: Russian insiders wouldn't have taken the risk to speculate beforehand on the wipe-out of the WTC and the Pentagon --WAY TOO RISKY. However, they got screwed (by Masood's last-minute change) as well: they pushed their luck to pocket a quick profit on the side and... ended up with hot money they won't even have the time to stash away before the CIA or their Moscow associates snuff them out...