On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:47:59PM +0100, Sean Kenny wrote:
> Not true, the Taleban destroyed the Opium crop last year at the behest of
> the West
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_344000/344932.stm
>
> and were pretty pissed off that they received no credit for it. European
> police forces are alreday bracing themselves for crime rises as a result of
> price increases in Heroin. Bin laden was a wealthy man long before he fled
> to Afghanistan - it's Oil money just like George Bush.
There's much speculation that the Taliban temporarily restricted
the opium crop in order to reap a windfall from selling stockpiles
in a much tighter market:
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n933/a09.html
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2001/06/14062001111150.asp
...
I seem to have deleted posts that mentioned possible large moves
in insurance equities in the weeks and even minutes preceding the
WTC attacks and followups decrying such treachery. Ok, but consider
that those who knew about that attacks and acted to profit from
that knowledge constituted a massive intelligence leak. We just
weren't paying attention. It seems obvious to me know, but shouldn't
"abnormal" movements in [re]insurer share prices constistute an early
warning? The trouble of course is sorting out "abnormal" movements
caused by those with pre-disaster knowledge and everything else.
-- Mike Linksvayer http://gondwanaland.com/ml/
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