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14,000 Dollars U.S. Bounty

A declared monetary reward — fourteen thousand U.S. dollars — publicly offered by the Iraqi government as a bounty for any American plane shot down or soldier captured. Not a photographed prop but an announced incentive that functions like an operational order: characters cite it aloud, register alarm, and treat it as a hard political lever raising the risk and urgency of rescue decisions.

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S1E22 · What Kind Of Day Has It Been

Pilot on the Line — Bartlet's Ultimatum

The announced $14,000 bounty is invoked by Bartlet via Rob's prior briefing as a morally corrosive incentive; it reframes the rescue as urgent and punitive, hardening the President's willingness to escalate.

Before: Publicly declared by the Iraqi government and known within intelligence briefings.

After: Now part of the administration's calculus and cited explicitly to justify aggressive action.

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S1E22 · What Kind Of Day Has It Been

Get Him Back — Bartlet Personalizes the Rescue and Issues an Ultimatum

The announced $14,000 bounty is verbally invoked by Bartlet (via Rob's earlier briefing) to underline hostile intent and to heighten the political and moral urgency of recovering the pilot.

Before: A declared policy/announcement by the Iraqi government, existing as an intelligence fact in analytic reports.

After: Functions as a sharpened risk factor in the Situation Room, reinforcing the need for swift recovery and influencing the President's threat posture.

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