[dpwiener]

This is an excellent analysis which echoes many of my own thoughts. At this point I believe it's a race against time to track down the remaining terrorist cells in this country before they launch follow-on attacks. The longer they hold off on those attacks the better, because the entire country as well as all levels of law enforcement have been sensitized to the danger and are on the lookout for potential terrorists. While they have demonstrated their competence, these terrorists are no geniuses, and they cannot possibly cover all their tracks in the face of the intense investigations now underway. There will also be information leakage no matter how well they've tried to isolate each cell, so cracking cells and individuals will have a cumulative rippling effect of dismantling their organization and reducing the magnitude of the threat.

[TheLion]

Liked your response! I think we should round up all people from known terrorist countries and deport them if they are non citizens. People come in here on so called "student visas" and then disappear. Violators of our immigration law from those parts of the world are potential terrorists unless proven otherwise. To proceed on any other basis is really dumb. We will have really done most of them a favor because, if there are anymore terrorist incidents.....they might not be safe here, even if innocent.