American Voices

The 'Dirty Bomb' Threat

June 19, 2002 | ISSUE 38•23

U.S. citizen Jose Padilla was arrested May 8 in a plot to detonate a "dirty bomb" spewing low-level radiation. What do you think about this latest terror threat?

  • I am an American, and I'm not about to be cowed into fearing things I should be afraid of.

    Jim Miller
    Architect

  • I'm glad they caught that soy-bomb guy. He was a dick.

    Lisa Bell
    Student

  • I don't know... picking up chicks with, 'Sleep with me, baby—tomorrow we could all be dirty-bombed' just doesn't cut it.

    Frank Castellano
    Delivery Driver

  • That's so awesome that the government stopped a would-be terrorist. And right when they're reeling from criticism about that stuff. It's like fate! A magical cosmic symmetry!

    Dave Downing
    File Clerk

  • Tell you one thing: There wouldn't be all this bombing and killing stuff if everyone in the world were either me or my wife.

    Mitch Redmond
    Systems Analyst

  • The big question is, how did we ever let a guy like this into the country? What? He was born here? Oh.

    Dana Cornell
    Florist

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