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"As time moves on, I think that it is less likely that anything will occur in the US. If there is activity on the US shores, it would only be Oklahoma type bombings at the most - no nukes."

What on earth could possibly lead you to this conclusion? Every scrap of information gathered here and endlessly analyzed by those of us here points to the exact opposite. Did you look at the awesome compilations posted by fluters and Godzilla? The sheeple can be forgiven their ignorance of the gravity of our situation because they are not seeing what we're seeing.

True, the nuke scenario is a very worst case nightmare, so we'll leave it on a back burner just for the sake of conversation. How about 100 simultaneous Oklahoma City style bombings coupled with 100....heck even 50......911 hijackings on critical infrastructure targets? I'd say thats as bad as or worse than one or more nukes, wouldn't you agree, tmp02? Given recent Border Patrol stats on the numbers of ME flowing into the country since 911 and even prior, they have more than enough personnel inside our borders to make even those figures seem small.

I mean, you sorta make it sound like: Well, summer's over, there have been no major attacks...so let's close up shop and go home!

Let's not forget their normal MO. Homicide bombers at schools, malls, churches, hospitals, daycare centers, retirement homes. Car bombs in tunnels, on bridges, at major chokepoints.

Snipers, kidnappings, beheadings.

I'm not trying to be negative here; they have either already done these things elsewhere or have announced their intentions to do so.

I'm thinking REAL hard about nightclubs and bars. Places that they would consider to be abominations.

Ex, you said "How about 100 simultaneous Oklahoma City style bombings coupled with 100....heck even 50......911 hijackings on critical infrastructure targets? I'd say thats as bad as or worse than one or more nukes"

If this occurs, instead of a nuke, our government and its intelligence is useless (I know its useless anyway...). I think that they have jumped on a lot of these types of problems. I haven't heard of any large amount of explosives being stolen for 100 conventional bombs lately. After reading 911 report, I could be wrong, but they don't seem to have the smarts or resources to carry out 100 style bombings all at once. Now I think that they could use 100 OK style bombs spread over the next several decades, but not all at once.

They are hard up of suicide bombers. It was within about a year that Atta and his friend joined AQ. There were no other applicants for the job since nothing has happened since then (They don't want to keep plans out in the open for a long time because someone may accidentally tell their family member what they plan on doing, etc- final steps and detail plans are made within months). Now it is possible that suicidals may be knocking down OBL's door now since Iraq and Afghanistan, but for a major attack to occur after 911 would be a fantastic undertaking that OBL, his team, resources could not put together with all nations breathing down their neck.

Obviously we can't totally be sure until something really happens, but I am starting to change my mind. The summer is not over yet, but my fears are lessening about a nuke attack. First we heard during summer and winter. Then we heard spring (by DHS) then summer (DHS), now they are saying fall (DHS). At least we are pushing back AQ's time line, hoping that we catch more militants in the mean time. Does that mean the AQ has a plan that is ticking down? Sure, but by the time it comes to the zero hour, I hope that everything is resolved and seems to be since time lines have been sliding.