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Patrick E. Tyler writes:<p> Politics aside, today marked the latest — and perhaps most frightening — episode in a sequence of terrorist acts or threats.<p>***No. All that happened yesterday is that the government decided to turn Mr. Padilla over to military jurisdiction. It was entirely procedural.***<p> ...the whole affair — what little could be learned about how the C.I.A. and F.B.I. detected it in Pakistan and shadowed Mr. Padilla, who took the name Abdullah al-Muhajir, all the way to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago — appeared to take the nation's breath away. (New York Times)<p>***Patrick ought to go outside and walk around a little bit. I see people going about their business. Whether that's good or bad is a question for another forum, but the simple fact is that absent a specific threat or even an "actual" attack, most people are worrying about what they usually worry about, which is to say nothing of importance beyond their tight little orbits. I'm not trying to downplay the threat, although I, like most Americans, know nothing beyond what the government has told us and have no way to evaluate it. We are not breathless, we are clueless.***
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