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LOOSE CHANGE, 2ND EDITION RECUT -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY |
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April, 2001: NORAD plans an exercise in which a plane is flown into the Pentagon but is rejected as “too unrealistic.”
June, 2001: The Department of Defense initiates new instructions for military intervention in the case of a hijacking. It states that for all non-immediate responses, the Department of Defense must get permission directly from the Secretary of Defense. ASHCROFT FLYING HIGH, by CBS News
July, 2001: Attorney General John Ashcroft begins flying on chartered jets for the remainder of his term due to a threat assessment conducted by the FBI. CIA AGENT ALLEGED TO HAVE MET BIN LADEN IN JULY, by Anthony Sampson
July 4, 2001: Osama bin Laden, wanted by the United States since 1998, receives medical attention at the American Hospital in Dubai, where he is visited by a local chief of the CIA.
July 24, 2001: Larry A. Silverstein, who already owned World Trade Center 7, signs a 3.2 billion dollar 99 year lease on the entire World Trade Center complex, six weeks before 9/11. Included in the lease is a 3.5 billion dollar insurance policy specifically covering acts of terrorism. TERRORIST TRADE PROBE WIDENS, by Robert Manor and Melissa Allison
September 6, 2001: 3,150 put options are placed on United Airlines stock. A put option is a bet that a stock will fall. That day, put options were more than four times its daily average. HEIGHTENED SECURITY ALERT HAD JUST BEEN LIFTED, by Curtis L. Taylor and Sean Gardiner
Bomb-sniffing dogs are pulled from the World Trade Center and security guards end two weeks of 12-hour shifts. September 7, 2001: 27,294 put options are placed on Boeing stock, more than five times its daily average. September 10, 2001: 4,516 put options are placed on American Airlines, almost 11 times its daily average.
Newsweek reports that a number of top Pentagon brass cancel their flight plans for the next morning. WILLIE BROWN GOT LOW-KEY EARLY WARNING ABOUT AIR TRAVEL, by Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown receives a phone call warning him not to fly the following morning.
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