President Bush today expressed concern about whether or not the U.S. is adequately prepared to respond to a terrorist attack on American soil.

Meeting at the White House with the president of Iraq, Bush responded to a reporter's question about the nation's readiness in view of mistakes made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

"Given what happened with Katrina, shouldn't Americans be concerned their government isn't prepared to respond to another disaster or even a terrorist attack?" a reporter asked.

Responded Bush: "Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all level of government, and to the extend the federal government didn't fully do its job right I take responsibility."

The president said he wants to know exactly went wrong in relation to Katrina response so he can answer the question "Are we capable of dealing with a severe attack?"

"That's a very important question," he said.

All three levels of government – federal, state and local – have taken their fair share of criticism about how quickly and effectively disaster response was provided after Hurricane Katrina pummeled the Gulf Coast and flooded New Orleans.

Independent analysts and officials of the Bush administration have warned of U.S. vulnerability to terror attacks using weapons of mass destruction, saying it is a matter of "when" not "if."

As WorldNetDaily reported, some federal efforts to protect Americans with drugs that could counteract a nuclear terror attack have been painstakingly slow.

WND has further reported that for more than 10 years, al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden has planned to use nuclear weapons in a terrorist attack on the U.S. The plan is dubbed "American Hiroshima." In fact, as first reported in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, captured al-Qaida operatives and documents suggest the weapons have already been smuggled into the country.

Intelligence analysts and sources disagree on the details of the way bin Laden's "American Hiroshima" plan unfolds. Some G2 Bulletin sources emphasize bin Laden's commitment to re-enacting the 1945 attack on Japan with one nuclear detonation, followed by another days later.

Paul Williams in his upcoming book, "The Al Qaeda Connection," however, sees a much more devastating, coordinated, all-out, surprise attack coming.

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