The New York Times-20080126-Two Others Seek Reward In Moussaoui Case- -Brief-
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Two Others Seek Reward In Moussaoui Case; [Brief]
The two senators who honored flight instructors for alerting the 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, received the payout on Thursday, when he was honored in a private ceremony as part of the State Department's Rewards for Justice program. But Tim Nelson and Hugh Sims, two of Mr. Prevost's former colleagues at the Pan Am International Flight Academy outside Minneapolis, are questioning the reward. A 2005 Senate resolution commended them for alerting the F.B.I. about a month before the attacks. The Minnesota senators who sponsored that resolution -- Norm Coleman, a Republican, and Mark Dayton, a Democrat who has since left the Senate -- want answers. I have contacted the State Department to determine why these heroic men were not recognized for their roles, Mr. Coleman said in a statement.
