[Wally_Kalbacken]

These folks are smart and evil. That's why the cheapest method of dealing with it could be, in fact, things like spending $87B to stabilize Iraq. And killing as many of these bastards pre-emptively as we can.

[CyberAnt]

"security analyst suspects terrorists are testing the system"

Geeeee .. I wish I could get paid .. I thought of that over a week ago; and in fact there were several of us on FR who agreed that the terrorists might be testing the system.

[P.O.E.]

Perhaps they're trying to habituate the system in order to raise the bar, so to speak. Kind of like Moynihans "defining deviancy down". Or like car thefts - they happen so often that they don't get a lot of attention. And thus, through inattention, they can slip through.