[SauronOfMordor]

Remember that bin Laden & Co are good at false documents and identity theft

Tracing the transactions would not be an issue, if by the time the investigators got around to trying to talk to the account holders, they would only discover the account holders did not exist or had disappeared, the addresses were abandoned buildings, and the money had already been wired overseas

Either that, or the people doing the trading were doing so in the arrogant belief that they could not be touched (like members of the Saudi Royal family)

It wasn't just those two airlines. Boeing saw large put volume (several million dollars worth), as well as insurance companies and other guys affected by the collapse of the WTC. Add up the millions, and you start talking about significant amounts of money. Maybe not by Federal Budget standards, but big money to non-governments

[LS]

First of all, you ascribe FAR too much power and ability to Bin Laden. Second, no, records ARE much more difficult to fake than you think--(and we know far more than Rummy says in his press conferences). Third, I repeat, even a few million would not be worth the risk to the operation. Either this guy is a fanatic, or he is a crook, but he can't be both. I say he is the former.