[not_apathetic_anymore]

If the FBI found any thing on these guys, we would have known about it

I'm not so sure I believe that's true. I have no doubt there are some (?many?) averted terrorist acts that we never hear about. Why? Giving the populace the specifics might blow leads as the bad guys scurry from light. Also, telling the general population that we'd watched through to it's conclusion a 'training run' would have serious economic impact on the airlines again - who knows what would happen in the stock market.

I certainly hope that economic reasons are not the only reasons we wouldn't divulge an averted attack, but who's to say that this episode didn't figure into the next day's vague announcement that they're up to something relatively soon.

Maybe I'm being naive, but I'm hoping the authorities do have many leads and are working them - I'm just not privy to that information.

[mastequilla]

I'm not so sure I believe that's true. I have no doubt there are some (?many?) averted terrorist acts that we never hear about. Why? Giving the populace the specifics might blow leads as the bad guys scurry from light. Also, telling the general population that we'd watched through to it's conclusion a 'training run' would have serious economic impact on the airlines again - who knows what would happen in the stock market.

The one truth in intelligence/law enforcement is that we rarely hear of successes. There are probably a lot of plots that have been disrupted but not disclosed.

[philosofy123]

I agre with you 100%. I just cannot think that a bunch of Arab Moslems who are here to kill us would go on a plane together with their coran in hand, and Arabic language, and eye contacts. That is essentially advertising them as terrorists? If that is the case, they will be AT LEAST interrogated. Are you with me so far? If that happens, there is a good chance that the FBI is going to either find connection to terrorist cells, or hold them in jail untill we figuer out who the heck they are? At the end, they would be defeting the whole goal.

The terrorists typically mingle wel with the population, especially after 9/11 a good terrorist is one that diskies himself in a good way. Otherwise, he will be in jail before he gets to do his dirty deed.