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Nan Orrock and Rev. Raphael Warnock discuss the recent Georgia special election. A Charles Sturt University CSU researcher says that what happens to financial markets after a terrorist attack, and how terrorists make money from these market movements, is illustrated by the suspicious trading that occurred immediately before the successful attacks on New York, Madrid and London.

Dr Hugh McDermott, senior lecturer in law enforcement at the CSU Australian Graduate School of Policing in Manly, says terrorists make money by speculating on the markets. British Airways shares dropped 42 per cent over the following week. Between September, 4 put options were bought on United Airlines, six times the normal volumes.

On 10 September, 4 put options were bought on American Airlines, times normal volumes. The World Trade Centre was the nerve centre of the global financial system, so the attacks were a major disruption to business.

Seventy four per cent of the civilian deaths in the attacks were people employed in the financial industry, and many investment banks had head offices in or around the World Trade Centre. Morgan Stanley occupied 22 floors of the World Trade Centre and was severely affected by the attacks.

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Merrill Lynch had headquarters near the Twin Towers and averaged contracts per day before 6 September. However, tracing these profits to terrorist insiders has allegedly proved futile.

The report puts the irregularities down to a general downturn in the airline industry and the release of a newsletter from a broker the weekend before the attacks which downgraded airline stock.

Surges in call options on gold and oil were also not explained.

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Spikes in the trading of put options on infrastructure stocks could indicate a heightened risk of a terrorist attack on critical infrastructure. Unexplained spikes in trading on commodities could indicate a heightened risk of a bio-terrorist attack. Dr McDermott notes that in its new market supervision role, ASIC monitors for unusual trading patterns to detect insider trading offences under the Corporations Act , but these capabilities could be leveraged to detect potential terrorist insiders.

Dr Hugh McDermott is senior lecturer in Law Enforcement at the CSU Australian Graduate School of Policing, Manly, and is the postgraduate course coordinator of all fraud and financial investigation courses at the School.

In this role he lectures at CSU campuses in Australia, at the Jakarta Centre for Law Enforcement Cooperation UNODC Indonesia , the National Police Academy in India, and in the Middle East. He was the senior manager, Major Fraud and International Enforcement, with ASIC, Sydney, from , and is also a barrister.

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Gold, bonds and defence stock strengthened and investors flocked to highly liquid, developed markets.

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Even a novice trader can see the windfall that could be achieved in shorting these stocks before a terrorist attack. Dr McDermott strongly disagrees with this finding: Dr Hugh McDermott Dr Hugh McDermott is senior lecturer in Law Enforcement at the CSU Australian Graduate School of Policing, Manly, and is the postgraduate course coordinator of all fraud and financial investigation courses at the School.

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