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GRAPEVINE, Page 11The Terrorist Bounty Hunters
By JANICE CASTRO
When it comes to blocking terrorist plots, the U.S. has
learned, cold cash works. Since 1989, the State Department has
run an interagency task force, called Rewards Program for
Terrorism Information, that pays bounties for tips on attack
plans. So far the task force, which combines the efforts of the
National Security Agency, the FBI and CIA, Interpol and other
agencies, has been contacted by snitches in 60 nations and has
paid more than $2 million in bounties. Its most dramatic coup:
a tip during the Gulf War that Saddam's agents planned to attack
a U.S. airline installation in Bangkok. Says a State Department
official: "We were able to prevent an attack in which probably
hundreds of lives would have been lost." Reward: $1 million.