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By Janet Dagley Dagley
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Hey, look! It's a helicopter! And over there: a limo!

Look! What's that over there? It's a motorboat!

The most disconcerting thing about today's terror-alert twist is not that the government is announcing that helicopters and/or limos could be used as weapons. It's that they seem so surprised, nearly 3 years after the 9/11 attacks, as if those possibilities were breaking news.

Perhaps that's because someone wants to distract us from the real breaking news:

Remember that big arrest last week of the Al Qaeda operative in Pakistan? Turns out it was a mistake: the guy was one of OUR secret agents. Oops! And then -- oops! -- the Bush administration leaked the agent's name.

Remember the guy who sat next to Laura Bush at the State of the Union address earlier this year, Ahmad Chalabi? Chalabi, an Iraqi who returned from exile along with the U.S. invasion forces, is reported to have been the source of many of those claims about weapons of mass destruction. The Iraqi interim government issued a warrant for his arrest today on charges of counterfeiting. He fell out of favor with the U.S. several months ago when suspicion arose that he was a spy for Iran.

Remember Chalabi's nephew, Salem Chalabi, an attorney who was chosen to prosecute the case against Saddam Hussein? A warrant was issued for his arrest today, too, on charges of murder.

Remember the invasion of Iraq, which the current administration insisted would make the world a safer place? So far it hasn't -- au contrere -- but Iraq seems to be getting more dangerous by the minute.

Tomorrow, maybe they'll be warning us that attacks could come on roller skates. Or, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the resignation of President Richard Nixon, whose name became "Marvin K. Mooney" in the book Dr. Seuss wrote about him, let's also be on the lookout for attacks by Bumble Boat, Zumble Zay, Zike Bike, Jumble Jet, old blue shoes, or Ga-Zooms.

Meanwhile, maybe you can answer this question, because I haven't been able to: What difference is there, if any, between terror and fear of terror? And if people who cause terror are called terrorists, then what do we call people who cause fear of terror?

posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @5:03 PM

9.8.04