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What means was there to transport photocopies made in Europe to the U.S. days before 9/11? (Remember, in one of his videotapes last year, bin Laden said he learned about the date of the planned attacks the Thursday before, i.e., Sept. 6th, which just happens to be the day the short selling of the stocks started.)

I've never read anything that definitive on the short selling. The last article on this I saw said that authorities had been unable to trace down any such transactions and basically relegated the whole thing to the status of rumor. Do you recall the source for the stock market transaction information?

Could they have been transported by Iraqi diplomatic pouch?

As I understand it, diplomatic pouches aren't subject to any kind of customs search, security inspection, or the like. If that's true, it's a natural way to have brought in anthrax (as well as potentially other types of contraband).

Do you recall the source for the stock market transaction information?

I believe I read that selling in put options in United and American Airlines on a suspiciously large scale occurred on the Thursday and Friday before 9/11 on the Web site of Der Spiegel, www.spiegel.de, a week or two after 9/11.

I still would like to stay with the interesting question:

when and where were the envelopes filled with anthrax?

Many weeks ago I argued on this forum
that the envelopes must have been prepared
long in advance.

If the letters were xeroxed outside the USA,
why would the anthrax be added inside the USA??

Why give the dangerous
(suicidal?)
job of filling the envelopes
to unskilled people without a proper lab
when the envelopes much more easily could be filled
by experts in Baghdad, or wherever?

It seems much more likely
(certain?)
that a control freak like Saddam
(or whoever)
would want to keep tight control over this operation
leaving to Atta only the choice of targets.

Speculation, I know, but reasonable speculation.