"The problem with that assessment, ERRI counter-terrorism analysts say and the Time magazine article points out, is that it also got "extremely quiet" just prior to the 11 September, 2001 attack in Washington and New York City. "There are many historical pattern similarities between the Summer of 2001 and the Fall of 2004," ERRI spokesman Clark Staten noted.
"Furthermore and with all due respect to the experts in DC...anyone who does not believe that Al-Qaeda operatives could carry out a series of car bombing in the United States tomorrow must be simply kidding themselves," Staten added. "Our assessment would suggest that Al-Qaeda is waiting and planning for one or more spectacular terror events...they do not want to carry out simplistic car/truck bombs that kill a few dozen people in each occurrence...that doesn't prove anything," the veteran analyst continued.
"What they really want is a major attack(s) that again prove their prowess and spread wide-spread fear among American citizens...they want to 'top themselves' and undertake an attack(s) that surpasses the events of 9/11," Staten said. "If this attack (or series of attacks), manages to take a hundreds or thousands of lives they will have achieved their objective. If concurrently these events influence or change the election process in the United States -- so much the better, in the view of the bad guys," Staten concluded."
Absolutely correct.
Not only absolutely correct, but there is a REASON we have not been attacked again since 9/11. And your analysis IS that reason. They could blow something up or bomb something ANYTIME THEY WANTED. There is only one reason why they have not:
And that is because the next attack will be MASSIVE.