(Continued from page 13) Then there is another coincidence: The huge increase in shorting of the financials occurred on the anniversary of 9/11. And on top of that, the same institutions attacked on 9/11/01 were the ones suffering in recent days. Joe asked the question: Is anyone investigating whether this is a case of financial terrorism? He wanted to know if someone was at least looking into this question ( Joe is buds with Jim Cramer, and mentioned it to him, who then omitted to cite in his column that this was Joe’s theory, not his own). Anyway, it’s an interesting theory, one that seemed kinda out there—until last night’s emergency action. Nothing else really explains the insanity of banning short sales—except for Joe Besecker’s questions.16 In answer to Mr. Besecker’s question, the Pentagon hired me to investigate, and the findings were most troubling. The data was clear but not totally conclusive that financial terrorism played a role in the collapse. I reported those findings in a book published earlier this year by Regnery titled SECRET WEAPON: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again. For more information, visit http:// secretweapon.org. 1. Clancy N. Childs, “A Comparative Analysis of Capitalist and Islamic Economic Systems,” Final Paper, AAPTIS 331 – Section 3, April 22, 2002, http://www.isu.ac.ir/farsi/academics/economics/edu/ dlc/2rd/01/other/1.2.pdf (accessed January 2012). 2. Ibid. 3. Mohammad Nejatullah Siddiqi, “Shariah, Economics and the Progress of Islamic Finance: The Role of Shariah Experts,” SEVENTH HARVARD FORUM ON ISLAMIC FINANCE, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 21, 2006, http://www.siddiqi.com/mns/Role_of_ Shariah_Experts.htm (accessed January 2012). 4. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen, “The Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) Shari`ah Financing and the Coming Ummah,” published in “Armed Groups: Studies in National Security, Counterterrorism, and Counterinsurgency,” chapter 28, US Naval War College, June 2008, http://www.acpr.org.il/nativ/0811-6-rehrenfeldE1. pdf (accessed December 2011).
5. “Panorama: Faith, Hate and Charity,” BBC, July 30, 2006, http:// www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/07_july/30/ panorama.shtml (accessed August 2011). 6. Matthew Levitt, “TERRORISM SALON: Matthew Levitt on Al Qaeda’s Economic Warfare,” TheWashingtonNote.com, July, 30, 2008, http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/07/terrorism_ salon_29/ (accessed September 2011). 7. Osama Bin Laden, FBIS translated text of message carried on AlJazeera satellite channel television, December 27, 2001, http://groups. yahoo.com/group/MewNews/message/4339 (accessed March 2009). 8. Gamal Essam El-Din, “A financial jihad,” Al-Ahram Weekly, November 21-27, 2002 (Issue No. 613) http://weekly.ahram.org. eg/2002/613/ec2.htm (accessed June 2009). 9. Commanding Heights interview with Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad conducted July 2, 2001 for PBS, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/ commandingheights/shared/minitext/int_mahathirbinmohamad.html (accessed September 2011). 10. Col. Qiao Liang and Col. Wang Xiangsui, Unrestricted Warfare (Panama City, Panama: Pan American Publishing Company, 2002), 43, 40, 127. 11. Ibid, 16, 39. 12. Ibid, 36. 13. Ibid, 163. 14. George Soros, “Does the Euro Have a Future?,” The New York Review of Books, September 15, 2011, http://www. nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/oct/13/does-euro-havefuture/?pagination=false (accessed August 2012). 15. George Soros, “One Way to Stop Bear Raids,” The Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2009, http://online.wsj.com/article/ SB123785310594719693.html (accessed August 2012). 16. Barry Ritholtz, “Terror Attack on US Financials? Details of SEC Short Ban,” The Big Picture, September 19, 2008, http://www.ritholtz. com/blog/2008/09/terror-attack-on-us-financials-details-of-sec-shortban/ (accessed August 2012).
Kevin D. Freeman, CFA, is the author of the New York Times bestseller Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again (www.secretweapon.org). He also is the CEO of Freeman Global Holdings, LLC. Considered one of the leading experts on financial terrorism, he has been called to brief a variety of agencies including the Pentagon, FBI, DIA, CIA, SEC, as well as members of the U.S. House and Senate. He authors a blog at www.globaleconomicwarfare.com.
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