This is scary

From The American Spectator

"Experts fear 'dirty bomb' attack in U.S., Europe." Thus spake a story
featured Sunday in the Los Angeles Times and headlined on Yahoo News, where I spotted it.

While a dirty bomb "would not cause the death and destruction of a nuclear weapon," experts say it would "produce some fatalities, radiation sickness, mass panic and enormous economic damage."

The story goes on to say that three known Al Qaeda operatives, one of them a son of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman of 1993 World Trade Center fame, "probably would carry out planning for the attack," and that the threat is so high that "a senior European intelligence official said it is 'not a matter of if there is a nuclear-related attack by Al Qaeda, but when it occurs.'"

You'd think this would be big news. Not that it would be healthy to react with panic and demoralization, but that such reports would concentrate the mind wonderfully on the seriousness of the war effort.

I would think/hope this might share some of the front page with the Abu Ghraib story. I hope it will get the time it deserves.