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Gold/Mining/Energy : Blue Chip Gold Stocks HM, NEM, ASA, ABX, PDG

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To: maceng2 who wrote (769)7/29/2003 11:52:44 PM
From: Wade  Read Replies (1) of 48092
 
Guys,

This is our Pentagon. Read this and tell me if we are still under good leadership. Sad and sick.

foxnews.com

Tuesday, July 29, 2003

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Tuesday abandoned a plan to establish a futures market that would have allowed traders to profit by correctly predicting assassinations and terrorist strikes in the Middle East.

Facing outraged Democratic senators, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz (search) said he learned of the program in the newspaper while heading to a Senate Foreign Relations hearing on Iraq..

"I share your shock at this kind of program," he said. "We'll find out about it, but it is being terminated."
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