Let’s not forget the “put options” placed on United and American airlines stock values the week before
9/11 by someone trying to make a buck on the tragedy. Or Silverstein’s insurance policy “top up” prior to
the event. Recall Donald Rumsfeld chose the date of September 10, 2001 to announce that a Pentagon
audit, ordered by Undersecretary Dov Zakheim and conducted by a Halliburton subsidiary, had discovered
that the Defense Department can no longer account for $2.3 trillion in past transactions.