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To: Dave Gore who wrote (48029)	9/29/2002 6:09:01 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

But LP, a while ago you said Bloomberg News didn't have anything to do with it, YOU SAID: "That article wasn't written by Bloomberg. Nor did it contain link to any Bloomberg" I said that the article you cited as a "reference" had no links to the information it cited. Information which, attesting to the speciousness of it, was refuted in a subsequent article I posted. then you went on to post that Bloomberg news reported Massive put option spikes, and then you said it was possible that terrorists WERE speculating before the attack. I posted an article that said that there were spikes, but that they weren't nearly as huge as you said something called the "National News" said. Moreover, neither I nor the regulators have said that such was impossible. No one (except perhaps you and your ilk) would speak with certitude about an issue to which certitude is not adjoined. I find it possible but highly unlikely, at this point, as apparently those who conducted the investigation did, too. You, on the other hand, are asserting that such is indisputable, having been covered in the media. Both claims are quite completely false. LP, I'm confused. No doubt about it. Seriously, are you retarded? The point is that this is pretty serious stuff if even partially true. Personally, compared to the other ways that terrorist groups have been known raise money - drug trafficking, arms dealing, and human slavery - I think that even if they were speculating in options...which, as I previously said, is possible but highly, highly unlikely given the credible evidence (e.g., not the trash you desperately cling to)...that's far more mundane on the spectrum of fund raising activities. And more importantly, as previously stated: on the scale of concerns I personally don't care if or how much they trade, so long as they do so from caves and hiding places being rained with steel death from above. LPS5