Daschle Urges Bush to Stop Terror Market

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WASHINGTON (AP)--The Senate's Democratic leader called on the Bush administration Tuesday to renounce a Pentagon plan for establishing a futures market on acts of terrorism and said apologies should be made to the families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.

``This program could provide an incentive actually to commit acts of terrorism,'' Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., declared on the Senate floor. ``...This is just wrong.''

Daschle called the proposal a ``plan to trade in death'' and charged it could motivate terrorists to attempt attacks on targets in the United States or against U.S. leaders. ``It is perhaps the most irresponsible, outrageous and poorly thought out of anything I have heard from the administration,'' he said.

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