Speaking of dreams, Al Queda is our Nightmare

An editorial in the Washington Post has this:
Obama must pay heed to al-Qaeda's quest for biological weapons

THREE THOUSAND people were killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. More than 300,000 could be dead within one week after a modest attack with biological weapons.

For most people, the thought of such an attack is an unthinkable horror. For al-Qaeda, it is a lingering dream and one that it is working diligently to achieve. Two recently released reports indicate the United States has been aware of this threat for years yet remains "woefully" unprepared.

Al-Qaeda is engaged in a "long-term, persistent and systematic approach to developing weapons to be used in mass casualty attacks," writes Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Osama bin Laden, as recently as 2007, called on his followers to acquire such weapons to "escalate the killing and fighting" against Americans.

There is more, read it here.