[windchime]

Because fear is their most effective weapon. The warning will affect more people for a longer period of time than an actual attack. (they can also monitor our preparation for such an attack) I'm going to do what I did after September 11........get a flight to New York, go to the Empire State Building, a play and other highly populated target areas!! If they keep us scared, they win!

[freeperfromnj]

Because fear is their most effective weapon.

Fear is definitely an effective weapon - but they already hit us twice in NYC, a couple of times at military installations and embassys. Why wouldn't they do it again? They are probably more inclined to seek vengence now that we've hit back at them in Afghanistan and other parts of the world, cut off a lot of their funding and backed Israel in its latest fight against the Palestinians.