Per this idea, shorts on the insurance companies dealing with the WTC were trading at 30x their usual volume in the days leading up to 9-11. So the WTC was des

Per this idea, shorts on the insurance companies dealing with the WTC were trading at 30x their usual volume in the days leading up to 9-11. So the WTC was destroyed, insurance companies took a bath and whoever shorted their stock became quite rich. Most of these funds have since been traced back to Al Qaeda associates. I call this "outsider trading." His example of Greenpeace shorting Exxon before suing them is quite similar to the example I just gave. I have no idea if this sort of behavior is regulated by the SEC the way insider trading is. I think it's generally un-ethical though.