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Press Release:
Large Rewards Paid to Individuals Providing Anti-terror Information
Program has distributed over $50 million to 35 people
A State Department-administered program rewards those who have information about terrorist acts or about those who commit or plan to commit them, according to a fact sheet prepared by State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security.
The Rewards for Justice program, initiated in 1984, has distributed $56 million to 35 individuals. The program authorizes the secretary of state to pay rewards for information that prevents or favorably resolves acts of international terrorism against U.S. persons or property anywhere in the world.
Press Release:
NORTHCOM Warning Center Tracks Threats
By Merrie Schilter Lowe
Special to American Forces Press Center
It is called the domestic warning center but the name does not adequately reflect the center's diverse responsibilities.
Even a name like the "Domestic Warning, Current and Future Operations and Civil Support Coordination Center" would fall short of identifying all the tasks assigned to U.S. Northern Command's domestic warning center here.
The DWC tracks potential threats -- man-made and natural -- assesses them and provides a "heads up" so the command can prevent, deter and defeat land and maritime threats. When deterrence is not possible, the center coordinates federal military support to assist civil authorities in mitigating the aftereffects.
Press Release:
Army Expands Anthrax, Smallpox Vaccinations
By Leah Rubalcaba
Anthrax vaccinations have resumed for Soldiers whose series of injections were interrupted during the anthrax vaccine shortages of 2000-2001.
The Army’s immunization program has also expanded to include both anthrax and smallpox vaccinations for Soldiers assigned to 17 newly designated high-threat areas.
Press Release:
Terrorism Targeted Against Freedom, Wolfowitz Says
By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USA
American Forces Press Service
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said today that the target of terrorism is not so much America, but freedom itself.
At a daylong conference sponsored by the Rand Corp. that addressed steps to deal with the war on terrorism, Wolfowitz told Rand terrorism experts that the Sept. 11 attacks were a "wake-up call" for the United States. He called the deaths of more than 3,000 Americans and foreign citizens "cold-blooded murder."
A technician at Walter Reed Army Medical Center immunizes a Soldier against smallpox in 2002 when the inoculation program began. The program has now expanded to require vaccinations for Soldiers going to 17 additional high threat countries.
Photo courtesy U.S. Army News Service.
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