9/11 addendum

Convar, sier at noen sannsynligvis visste sånn omtrent når flyene ville krasje inn i World Trade Center, og forsøkte å utnytte denne kunnskapen.

Were criminals responsible for the sharp rise in credit card transactions that moved through some computer systems at the WTC shortly before the planes hit the twin towers?

Or was it coincidence that unusually large sums of money, perhaps more than $100 million, were rushed through the computers as the disaster unfolded?

A world leader in retrieving data, German-based firm Convar is trying to answer those questions and help credit card companies,
Using a pioneering laser scanning technology to find data on damaged computer hard drives and main frames found in the rubble of the World Trade Center and other nearby collapsed buildings, Convar has recovered information from 32 computers that support assumptions of dirty doomsday dealings.

“The suspicion is that inside information about the attack was used to send financial transaction commands and authorisations in the belief that amid all the chaos the criminals would have, at the very least, a good head start,” said Convar director Peter Henschel.

Richard Wagner, a data retrieval expert at the company, said illegal transfers of more than $100 million might have been made immediately before and during the disaster.

“There is a suspicion that some people had advance knowledge of the approximate time of the plane crashes in order to move out amounts exceeding $100 million,” Wagner said. “They thought that the records of their transactions could not be traced after the main frames were destroyed.”

In June, 2002, Convar was purchased by security firm Kroll Inc., which employs a number of former FBI and CIA officials, and has a reputation for serving as a cut-out of US Intelligence.

Interestingly, in August of 2001, it was then-Managing Director of Kroll, Jerome Hauer, who arranged for former FBI special agent John O’Neill, to be hired as chief of security at the World Trade Center.

Besides being in Kroll’s service on September 11, Hauer was also running Rudolph Giuliani’s “Office of Emergency Management,” and its hardened “command and control” bunker on the 22nd floor of WTC 7.

– De trodde at sporene etter overføringene ville viskes ut når datamaskinene ble ødelagt, sier Wagner.

For to år siden utviklet imidlertid Convar en laserteknologi som gjør det mulig å berge slik informasjon for mellom 170.000 og 270.000 kroner per datamaskin.

Convar arbeider nå sammen med FBI for å spore opp de som stod bak transaksjonene.

– Vi hjelper FBI å finne ut hva som skjedde med datamaskinene 11. september. Jeg er sikker på at vi kommer til å finne ut hva som skjedde med pengene, sier Henschel.

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