And what makes you think they haven't already tried to set one off? People are working really hard to make sure that doesn't happen. But we'll never know about it because the Feds don't want us panicking and staying home from Wal-Mart!
Just blowing up a suitcase nuke with conventional explosives would yield a dirty bomb however, 5000 jihadist turned snipers among our cities would cause more terror and mayham than anyone could imagine. Just look at what two did to the east coast not long ago. There is a storm brewing IMHO among the swarthy type but they are like independent truckers, you can't get two of them to agree on anything.
They might have. And when they did, they probably discovered that the "suitcase nuke" the Russian mafia sold them was nothing other than a 1970's era Soviet fax machine.
I don't know why they do what they do. Why don't they start blowing up a pizza jernt on a saturday night? Or set up some more sniper teams a la the Washington Snipers (good name for a sports team?). They had the whole area terrorized for almost a month. Two guys.
No, these dudes like the grand gesture and they're willing to wait until all the pieces are in place.
Not saying it's going to happen, not saying it's not. But the hair is standing up on the back of my neck and I don't like it.