The guy from NE Intelligence reminds me of the financial hucksters during the 1982 - 2000 bull market -- the greatest secular bull market of all time -- who kept telling us to "sell, sell, sell" because the Dow was about crash to historic lows. When the bear market finally hit in 2001, these so-called financial gurus had the gall to say "I told you so," after missing out on the greatest bull market and money making oppurtunity in the history of the modern stock market.
I have no doubt that AQ will strike again and strike hard in the U.S.A.,and there is not a lot that we can do to stop every possible attack. And when the attack comes, whether it happens next week, next month, next year, or in the next decade, the guy from NE Intell will say "I told you so.""