Al-Qaeda 'plotted nuclear attacks'. Two alleged masterminds of the 11 September attacks tell an Arab journalist they had initially planned to fly jets into nuclear plants. [BBC News | WORLD]

This is chilling. I suppose we'll know soon enough if it's true.  I suspect it is.

An Uncertain Trumpet. Most of us had expected the country to be in a different place by now. The fact that it is not can be attributed largely to President Bush's failure to leverage the political and moral capital Sept. 11 provided. [New York Times: Opinion]

Read it and weep.