re: better or worse
What I find significant is the international/Pak and Al Qaeda aspect which suggests that home-grown terrorists can easily hook up with outside resources for training, etc. If it were purely 'local' in origin, as was being claimed a few weeks ago, it would still be just as dangerous. However, the international dimension suggests again how crucial it is to be able to break into the loose networks that have taken budding jihadists to Pak, etc. to continue their 'education'......
Actually, that makes it better.
Seeing how easy is is to hook up, yet events like this are exceeding rare, shows just how little power Al-Queda has to influence things beyond it's immediate control.