[At _War_With_Liberals]

The good news is that this does imply that airplanes are not part of the Al Qaeda strategy anymore, or else they could have blown up another plane by now.

I think that Al Q is regrouping and laying low in the US for survival purposes. Tens of thousands of Muslims are immigrating here a year. Who knows if some are Al Qaeda. I am more worried about this state sanctioned infiltration than of a specific attack now. Since 9-11, they have not done anything. Not even a simple shooting. I can only imagine what the cells in the US are planning. Hopefully, law enforcement has been effective, and that is the reason for the peace. Hopefully.

[John H K]

Well, AQ never had nearly as many actual international operatives as people imagined. Even prior to 9/11 not more than a few hundred worldwide. Most of those have been rounded up.

(Donning Flame-resistant suit) I think it's entirely possible that there are no actual AQ cells in the US at the moment.

Whatever inflated fantasy numbers of thousands and thousands in AQ cells there are simply don't pass the smell test; I suspect the numbers are inflated by including people who fundraise for Hamas, etc...not that that isn't bad, but there's a difference between that an an active AQ domestic terror cell. And also inflated by counting EVERYONE who happened to go to an AQ camp in Afghanistan for "training"...this was thousands of people, but they're not all or mostly in this country, and very few were actually seriously trained as terrorists and accepted in the AQ network.

Not to say there couldn't be some horrible AQ attack in the US tomorrow, but I liken it somewhat to early 1942 in the US; Pearl Harbor was terrible, and the Japanese were dangerous, but people were running around seeing non-existent Japanese invasion fleets off California, and the media was publishing silly scenarios for a non-planned and physically impossible Japanese invasion of the US.