Paranoia runs high.

When I watched the NBC News last night, I was dumbfounded by the realization that paranoia could run so high.:

For weeks, America was on edge as security operations went into high gear. Almost 30 international flights were canceled, inconveniencing passengers flying Air France, British Air, Continental and Aero Mexico.

But senior U.S. officials now tell NBC News that the key piece of information that triggered the holiday alert was a bizarre CIA analysis, which turned out to be all wrong.

CIA analysts mistakenly thought they'd discovered a mother lode of secret al-Qaida messages. They thought they had found secret messages on Al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language television news channel, hidden in the moving text at the bottom of the screen, known as the "crawl," where news headlines are summarized.

An excellent illustration that fear is the greatest thing to fear, as we have extenseively discussed before but hold on, now that I'm thinking about it, Brian Williams blinked twice while reporting this... Any possible hidden message there? Any clue, anybody?