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To: Dave Gore who wrote (48040)	9/29/2002 6:23:00 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You know that's not what you said the first time. Of course it is. Message 18049210 Is it possible that the terrorists were speculating before the attacks? It's possible. Is it likely? At this point I don't think so, mostly because (a) equity and option order audit trail and surveillance is extensive on an ongoing, real time basis - especially in vanilla equity options - and (b) if there was such a link, it'd been discovered by now. It's been over a year: more than enough time to scrub the data and follow the transactions to their electronic origin and/or brokerage account, so I think that any such connection would have been discovered and revealed at this point. In all seriousness, can't we all agree that stopping terrorist revenue streams in every manner possible is a good thing? LOL! That's some swing from this! Message 18047192 Most importantly, there's no conclusive evidence that they attempted to profiteer before the Sept 11th attacks. Like I said: I'm less concerned with how they make money. I'd much rather we concentrate our efforts on snuffing them out. LPS5