Oh, if you want a good idea of what happened to that metal, you don't have to look deeper into 9/11. Bankers and others have been hording gold for
decades and benefiting enormously from it.

THE PROJECT HAMMER FILE is the companion volume to THE SECRET GOLD TREATY, and is the culmination of six years intensive investigation. It
reveals, for the first time, how huge sums of money get "created" by governments and international banks working in collaboration in deep privacy.
The story is backed with copies of over 100 images of corroborating documents, including incredibly important sworn depositions.
One of these was given by US Brigadier General Erle Cocke, a major player in the world of covert operations and the former Washington "office" of
the CIA's Nugan Hand Bank.
[...]
Trading Programmes use black gold, diamonds and other assets plundered during WWII as backing collateral. These assets cannot be openly sold, as
doing so would have devastating consequences for the price of gold in the open market and also reveal the long hidden secret that more gold exists
than is officially admitted. The only way to “monetise” black gold and other non-existent assets is via placement in leveraged Trading
Programmes. In this manner the value of the gold used as collateral can be “magicked” into being in secret in a matter of a few weeks. Once the
programmes completes, the gold is automatically unencumbered and therefore become “free” again. In this way, the same gold can be used again and
again and again – extracting its full market value numerous times over.
And not "black gold" as in oil, but just gold that doesn't really exist (publically) on paper.
Source, and you can also download the ebook
on this page, and there are also two other ebooks that go along with this on that site.
It's a lot of reading. Basically it comes down to massive amounts of money being created (but not actually printed) from nothing, apart from the
Federal Reserve not having any actual reserves in the first place. This seems to be a separate scandal that works on that system.
CitiBank is eat up with it, and legal documents relating to all of this were being stored in WTC7, but were destroyed on 9/11. So on 9/11, these guys
had some hard evidence on them blown up, and probably got a good amount of gold as well, which is probably being used right now for collateral for
money that should never exist. If this stuff were revealed to the general public, we would probably have a huge economic crash across the whole
Western Hemisphere because a lot of currency would suddenly become worth a whole lot less unless drastic action were to be taken by the powers that
be. This is bigger than 9/11 imo.
[edit on 17-4-2006 by bsbray11]