Only people who think that the show "24" is based on reality believe in suitcase bombs. The rest of us have brains that actually work.

Members of Congress have warned about the dangers of suitcase nuclear weapons. Hollywood has made television shows and movies about them. Even the Federal Emergency Management Agency has alerted Americans to a threat - information the White House includes on its Web site.

But government experts and intelligence officials say such a threat gets vastly more attention than it deserves. These officials said a true suitcase nuke would be highly complex to produce, require significant upkeep and cost a small fortune.

Counterproliferation authorities do not completely rule out the possibility that these portable devices once existed. But they do not think the threat remains.

"The suitcase nuke is an exciting topic that really lends itself to movies," said Vahid Majidi, the assistant director of the FBI's Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate. "No one has been able to truly identify the existence of these devices."

I have read other articles about the possibility of suitcase bombs. Every one of them, that was not written by a seventeen year old boy, believed the concept to be either very unlikely, or completely impossible. If you doubt that then I encourage you to read the ENTIRE article that the link above leads you to.

This is the kind of thing that the Bush administration throws out there to scare the people who get their understanding of international relations from James Bond movies. You know, the same kind of people who can be scared into voting the worst President in history into office for a second term. Morons!