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Mystery Speculator Bets On
Disaster
Pat Shannan
American
Free Press
Monday Sept 3, 2007
A huge downside purchase of “put” options by an
unknown investor or conglomerate in Europe has both investors
and NWO watchers abuzz worldwide. Someone has placed a $4.5 billion
bet that within 30 days the European stock market will take at
least a 33% nosedive. Such an event would be tantamount to the
market crash of 1929.
The two sales are being referred to by market traders as “bin
Laden trades” because only an event on the scale of the
9-11 “terrorist” attacks could make these short-sell
“put” options valuable.( A “put” option
is a bet that a stock will go down. A “call” option
is a bet it will go up.)
There are 65,000 pending contracts at $750 in the Standard and
Poor Index. This controls 6.5 million shares at $750 or $4.875
billion. The entity or individual offering these sales can make
money only if the market drops 30%-50% within 30 days. If the
market does not drop, the entity or individual involved stands
to lose about $1 billion just for engaging in these contracts.
On the other hand, if the prediction is correct, the reward could
be over $2 billion.
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“The fact that the purchase was made in the European market
is insignificant,” said one speculator with decades of experience,
“because it could have been done by bank transfer from anywhere
in the world. What concerns us is what kind of inside information
could this group or individual have. It would have to have far
deeper roots than just `insider trader’ knowledge.”
Two theories are being discussed widely within the stock and
options markets regarding this enormous and very unusual activity:
A massive terrorist attack is going to take place before September.
21 which will torpedo the markets along with whatever other target
is hit or, China, reeling over losing $10 billion in bad loans
to the sub-prime mortgage collapse presently taking place, is
going to dump U.S. currency in an attempt to topple all of capitalism
with a communist financial revolution. Either situation could
be catastrophic to the financial world.
The 9-11 attacks were foreshadowed by “put” options
placed onAmerican and UnitedAirlines, as reported in the immediate
aftermath. According to CBS News, the put ratio for United Airlines
was 25 times above normal on
September 6.
In the week before September 11, “put” options in
United and American Airlines went through a furious and unprecedented
spasm of investment. Most of the investments in these put options
originated in Germany through the Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank
had earlier acquired Banker’s Trust, an investment banking
firm whose vice chairman in charge of “private client relations”
in the late 1990s was A. B. “Buzzy” Krongard.
In March of 2001, Krongard was appointed executive director of
the CIA. On September 6-7, when there was no significant news
or stock price movement involving United, the Chicago exchange
handled 4,744 “put” options for UAL stock, compared
with just 396 call options—essentially bets that the price
will rise.When the market re-opened on Sept. 17, 2001, American
and United, the only two airlines with hijacked planes, saw their
stocks plummet by around 40%.
What becomes particularly relevant in the lead-up to 9-11 is
the August CIA briefing of President Bush concerning the potential
threat of attacks by bin Laden using hijacked planes on certain
sites, such as the Pentagon and World Trade Center, and the fact
that the CIA had bugging equipment on bin Laden messages and international
banking operations. Although apparently no one has claimed the
money from the “put” options, questions remain about
Krongard and the CIA’s involvement.
“Put” options on Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch,
two of the World Trade Center’s most prominent occupants,
also spiked in the days before 9-11. The 9-11 Investigation Committee
made no attempt to pursue this highly sensitive matter. The SEC
never made public who these speculators were.
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