More Now, Moore?

Fifteen European tourists were kidnapped in the remote desert of northern Ethiopia, one of the hottest and most inhospitable areas in the world, a diplomat and people in the area said. The tourists were in four-vehicle convoy in Dalol, 500 miles northeast of Addis Ababa, traveling to salt mines in the Afar region, when they were kidnapped Thursday, a businessman and a tour operator who work in the area said. The British citizens were believed to be in the convoy as well, the businessman said.

One of those kidnapped was Italian-born Rossanna Moore, wife of Michael Moore, director of the British Council in Ethiopia, according to a diplomat who also spoke on condition of anonymity. Michael Moore refused to comment when reached Friday by The Associated Press.

Well, I hope she knows that her husband doesn't like politicians sending troops to clean up terror.

He thinks that the U.S. was caught in a "mass psychosis" after 9/11 and

In the precincts of the loony left, it seems, the terrorist threat is an imaginary canard. Michael Moore made this point a year ago, speaking on NBC's Today show (Oct. 7, 2003, not on the Internet ): "there is no terrorist threat. Somebody needs to just say this: There—there is not terrorist threat. Now, there are acts of terrorism."