Large (Probably Shady) Financial Transactions

were a common feature of all four sites bombed on 9/11: WTC1 (brokerage houses), WTC2 (brokerage houses), WTC7 (brokerage house and SEC offices) and the Pentagon (specifically the Army Accounting Office was hit).

It is tempting to speculate this is the unifying feature of 9/11-- a massive cover-up of financial fraud.

Even the airlines, which of course took a large hit on 9/11, but which were in trouble before the attacks, ended up getting bailed out by Congress after 9/11.