Terror bets plan casualty

01 August 2003
The Evening Standard
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THE brains behind the Pentagon's bizarre plan to allow traders to bet on 
future terrorist acts, retired admiral John Poindexter, will quit within 
weeks, according to the US Defense Department.

The programme, dubbed "terror futures" was cancelled earlier this week after 
being attacked by politicians on all sides.

Poindexter, as President Ronald Reagan's national security adviser, was a 
key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal during the 1980s and is no stranger to 
controversy.