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:: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 ::
Merit in 'terror market'? One of the most popular stories on our site yesterday -- and certainly the most e-mailed -- was about a proposed terrorism futures market. It was so thoroughly denounced that the Pentagon has already pulled the plug.
DARPA Bets on Online Terrorism Futures U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) are calling for an immediate end to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) latest project to predict terrorist events through the online selling of "futures" in terrorist attacks.
Market lets you bet on the future in Mideast: A San Diego company is working with the Pentagon on a futures market that would allow anonymous speculators to bet on assassinations and terrorist attacks."
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