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To: GST who wrote (108631)	7/29/2003 1:42:41 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<WASHINGTON - The Pentagon (news - web sites) is setting up a stock-market style system in which investors would bet on terror attacks, assassinations and other events in the Middle East. Defense officials hope to gain intelligence and useful predictions while investors who guessed right would win profits. > That seemed an excellent idea to me. I've got a Tonka Truckload of money and a Ryder Truckload of diesel which says that there's going to be a big bang at, umm, let's see... If the odds aren't rewarding enough for that, who wants to bet on a RPG attack on an American Hummer? Heck, if there's money to be made, this could really get things happening. There's nothing like some cash flow to get people coming up with good ideas. Heck, look at Worldcom. Hey, how much to blow up the Worldcom GSM network? Mqurice