Senators question $5M reward

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FREDERIC J. FROMMER
AP News

Jan 25, 2008 14:37 EST

The two senators who honored flight instructors for alerting authorities to Zacarias Moussaoui before the Sept. 11 attacks are asking why the men were left off a $5 million government reward given to another tipster.

Clarence Prevost, 69, got the payout Thursday in a private ceremony as part of the State Department's "Rewards for Justice" program, which mainly seeks information about perpetrators or planners of terrorist acts against U.S. interests and citizens abroad.

But two of Prevost's former colleagues at the Pan Am International Flight Academy outside Minneapolis are questioning the reward, especially after a 2005 Senate resolution commended their "bravery" and "heroism" for alerting the FBI about a month before the attacks.

The Minnesota senators who sponsored that resolution, Republican Norm Coleman and now-retired Democrat Mark Dayton want answers from the State Department.

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See previous post here

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/deminks/125

Isn't 100,000/1 the going rate for contributions to the potty of fecal responsibility?

Enquiring minds want to know.