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- GRAPEVINE, Page 11The Terrorist Bounty Hunters
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- By JANICE CASTRO
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- 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.
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