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The 'Dirty Bomb' Threat

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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

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"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

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"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