JEFF JARVIS AND CHARLES JOHNSON are unhappy that the media are giving so little attention to the Saudi bombing. Actually, I think it’s a good thing. Terrorists exist to terrorize; it’s not working.

I think that this is a desperate effort by Al Qaeda to show that it can still do something. And the target audience is largely in Saudi Arabia and the Islamic world, not here. But the world has changed to their disadvantage. Against the backdrop of (false) security in the 1990s, stuff like this was big news. Now — next to the war in Iraq — this looks like small potatoes by skulking losers.

UPDATE: Bryon Scott, meanwhile, thinks that Osama is playing into our hands.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Michele thinks I’m wrong here. So does David Jones.