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[Maria Winslow <maria.winslow AT windows-linux.com>]

> > My favorite quote from the N&O article (the one that scared me the
> > most), which, unfortunately, I can't find a link to online...
> >
> > "Wyden explained it this way: 'For instance, you may think early on
> > that Prime Minister X is going to be assassinated, so you buy the
> > futures contracts for 5 cents each.  As more people begin to think the
> > person's going to be assassinated, the cost of the contract could go up
> > to 50 cents.  The payoff if he's assassinated is a dollar per future.
> > So if it comes to pass, and those who bought at 5 cents make 95 cents.
> > Those who bought at 50 cents make 50 cents.'"
>

This was the quote of the day in the NY Times' email brief, and it's even 
freakier:

"Can you imagine if another country set up a betting parlor so that people 
could go in - and is sponsored by the government itself - people could go in 
and bet on the assassination of an American political figure?" - SENATOR 
BYRON DORGAN, Democrat of North Dakota, in disclosing that a Pentagon office 
has proposed an online futures market in terror attacks.

While we're on the topic, I recently read "Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia 
Supports the New Global Terrorism" by Dore Gold. Published this year, and 
quite an eye opener.

Maria