[metmom]

I remember shortly after 9/11 there was supposedly an attack planned by AlQueda on a small town down south of about 1500 people or so. Apparently the thought was to cause fear by showing that nowhere in the US was safe because the town was picked entirely at random. Does anyone else remember that? There's no method to their madness.

[BlueStateDepression]

Indeed there is a method and that very method is what bit them the hardest. Al qaeda had a time line, roughly about every 18 months. Al qaeda also had a pattern of escalating the scope of their attacks....bigger and bigger. That is what has bitten them. They cannot top 911, especially now that the USA is FINALLY fighting BACK.

Lets just say for the sake of conversations sake, that a train wreck here, a plastic plant explosion there, or a refinery fire over there actually are Al qaeda attacks. They are dismissed as accidents and they get no credit, thus a complete and utter failure of an attack. ( 11 Set the bar to high and it backfired on them in so many ways, including blowing their method right out of the water.

[R. Scott]

Does anyone else remember that? There's no method to their madness.

I remember it – but fortunately for us small city types, the terrorists want the big headlines with international name recognition. If they killed a few dozen people in Petersburg, Virginia it would shake up people in the USA – but the ignorant Arab in Dumbistan wouldn’t think it a big deal.