The Onion's 'Attack' Issue Hit With Readers

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For the Onion and its readers, it looks like the wait was worth it.

The popular weekly humor magazine and Web site was hit with record online traffic when it published its “Attack on America” issue this week, its first new material since the terrorist attacks.

The publication posted the issue on Tuesday evening. Articles focused on the aftermath of the hijackings that destroyed the World Trade Center towers and damaged the Pentagon, with headlines such as “U.S.





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