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Terrorism. The monetary rewards are an incentive to The campaign has generated some controversy. It
potential informants to provide law enforcement agen- has been accused of creating misleading and inaccu-
cies with information about any terrorist act, planned rate advertisements—notably a poster with a photo-
or carried out, against U.S. citizens. Acts and people graph of terrorist Mohamed Atta with unattributed
that the Rewards for Justice Program has specifically text describing the activities of suspected conspirator
targeted include the 1994 genocide in Rwanda; Zacarias Moussaoui. One critic claimed that a non-
Serbian leaders Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic; citizen offering information was detained by the
Eric Rudolph for the 1996 Olympic bombings in Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) rather
Atlanta, Georgia; and the kidnapping and murder of than rewarded; meanwhile the Zionist Organization of
journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. America has complained that Palestinian killers of
More than $22 million has been paid to a total of U.S. citizens in Israel are not named on the program’s
22 informants in recent years. Information about most Web site.
of these cases is classified. Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, In the four months following September 11, 2001,
later convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bomb- the program received 24,000 tips. The State Depart-
ing, was arrested on the basis of information provided ment has called the program “one of its most valuable
in exchange for $2 million—the largest single pay- U.S. Government assets in the fight against inter-
ment to date. In October 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act national terrorism.”
increased the amount that could be paid to an individ-
See also PATRIOT ACT; SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS; RAMZI
ual to more than $5 million, and up to $25 million
AHMED YOUSEF
specifically for information leading to the capture of
Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders. In the Further Reading
wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World
Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon near Lee, Chisun. “In the Crosshairs.” Village Voice, January 29,
2002, 47(4):45-47.
Washington, D.C., additional money for the program
Radler, Melissa. “State Dept. Not Publishing Names of
was collected by public donations to the nonprofit
US Citizen’s Killers.” The Jerusalem Post, March 6,
Rewards for Justice Fund, established by businessmen
2002, 4.
Scott Case and Joe Rutledge. The Air Transport
Rewards for Justice Program. www.rewardsforjustice.net.
Association of America and the Airline Pilots U.S. State Department Fact Sheet. “Rewards for Justice
Association also pledged $1 million each to be dis- Program.” December 13, 2001. http://usinfo.state.
tributed as supplemental awards for cases involving gov/topical/pol/terror/01121314.htm, April 4, 2002.
aviation.
Following the nomination of a potential recipient
by a U.S. investigating agency, an interagency com- REYNOSO, ABIMAEL GUZMÁN. See
mittee evaluates the information provided, decides if a
reward is appropriate, and how much is to be paid. GUZMÁN, ABIMAEL.
Both the secretary of state and the attorney general
must approve the committee’s decision. The amount
of the reward is based on the value of the information,
the risk faced by the informer, and the degree of his or RHD. See RED HAND DEFENDERS.
her cooperation.
Publicity for the program has included advertise-
ments in local languages placed in both foreign and RIRA. See REAL IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY.
U.S. media, posters, matchbook covers, and an Internet
site. The advertising firm Ogilvie & Mather Worldwide
worked, pro bono, to create a new advertising cam-
paign; the national campaign was launched in RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA, BOMBING
December 2001, with media sources within the United
States running the ads free as public service announce-
ments. Undersecretary of Public Diplomacy and Public On November 13, 1995, bombers parked a car
Affairs Charlotte Beers oversaw the campaign. filled with explosives next to a building housing U.S.