Weapons Cache? What Weapons Cache?

The editors of the LA Times decided these are the stories you'd find most important and interesting:

• Need for More Government Regulation: "Planting Seeds of Wrath in 'Steinbeck Country'" (library closures), "Sweat, Fear and Resignation Among All the Toys" (working conditions in Mattel factories in China)
• Bush-bashing: "Sizing Up Man Who Would be Atty. Gen." (Scroll down two posts), "Ports Called 'Enormous Targets'"
• Environmentalism/Animal Rights: "Plans for Seal Safaris Put Norway in a Dilemma"
• International: "Ukraine Court to Rule on Election"
• Feature: "Breaking, Entering Your PC" (spyware)

Not making the cut, on page one or anywhere else in todays LAT was this story on the discovery of a huge weapons cache in a Falloujah mosque. As the Washington Times reported:

The weapons cache, described by the U.S. military as the largest uncovered so far in Fallujah, was discovered Wednesday in the Saad Bin Abi Waqas Mosque, where fugitive rebel leader Abdullah al-Janabi often preached.

Troops found small arms, artillery shells, heavy machine guns, and anti-tank mines inside the mosque, the U.S. military said. U.S. forces also uncovered what may have been a mobile bomb-making factory as well as mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, launchers, and parts of surface-to-air weapons systems elsewhere in the mosque compound, the military added.

At a press conference in Baghdad, National Security Adviser Qassem Dawoud said troops found the suspected chemical lab in the southwestern district of Fallujah, where pockets of insurgents are still holding out following the Nov. 8 U.S.-Iraqi assault.

"We also found in the laboratory manuals and instructions spelling out procedures for making explosives," he said. "They also spoke about making anthrax."

I guess the LAT's editors thought it more important to know libraries are underfunded and (surprise!) spyware is a threat to our computers.