CNN.com - Pentagon defends 'terror market' - Jul. 29, 2003
Ohhkay. This, I wouldn't have believed without CNN and 2 senators asking about it -- and won't be surprised if it turns out to be false. The Pentagon is setting up, and has spent $600,000 on, a "public, stock-market style exchange where traders can profit by correctly predicting terror attacks or assassinations in the Middle East."
Aside from the fact it's repugnant to me to have a stock market in when people will be killed, I think there's a basic flaw in the plan: the people who buy into this system can also blow people up as well. Can you say, "paying the terrorists to kill people"?