Re: NEWS:Why 'Terrordaq' will come - if the Pentagon likes it or not

From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Sat Aug 02 2003 - 18:08:21 MDT

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    At 02:28 PM 8/2/2003 -0700, Adrian Tymes wrote:
    >--- Robin Hanson <rhanson@gmu.edu> wrote:
    > > PAM was never intended to predict individual terror
    > > attacks, especially
    > > their details.
    >
    >Err...then what was it intended for? Another vague
    >general alert status?

    It was about general geopolitical trends in the Mideast,
    such as whether the US pulling its troops out of Saudi
    Arabia will raise or lower the chance of civil unrest
    in Saudi Arabia.

    Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
    Assistant Professor of Economics, George Mason University
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