Understood. However, there are certain limitations that are apparent in low intensity conflicts such as terrorism. For an attack with such importance, OBL is wise enough not to over extend himself. He learned well against the Sovs in Afganistan.
Right, but there's only one US Embassy in each of those countries. ;-) How many coordinated attacks can they do against one Embassy? (joking, of course)
Of course, but that was two attacks over a geographic distance. Madrid was concentrated to one city with 5-6 bombs, 911 was 4 planes, 3-4 targets (and they were at peak operations then). I don't want to over estimate their capabilities. You contemplate even 20 attacks....the complexity goes way up.
I was joking - the joke was that we only have one US Embassy in each country, and since they want to kill Americans, they CAN'T do multiple coordinated attacks against one poorly-defended US Embassy in one country because there is only ONE Embassy in each country. (I wasn't talking about the simultaneous attacks against different Embassys in different countries - which I thought was pretty amazing coordination, given entirely different security situations.) I was trying to imply that in foreign countries, their options for "American" targets are limited, whereas in America, their targets, any target, is American.
Also, see Freepmail.
But anyway, I understand your point about complexity going up and risks going up the more attacks they try to coordinate at once.