[Btrp113Cav]

no i'm pretty sure the FBI and other federal agencies keep a close eye on foreign nationals. I don't think their is a real big threat of terror cells in the US anymore... a couple years ago yes. Home grown terrorist now thats a different issue. Wannabes and 5 month islamic converts scare me more than some professional cell out of pakistan. Believe it or not its tough to infiltrate into the US. Credit card statements, wiretaps, club memberships everything is monitored now on a database. Look how quickly they caught those 12 egyptian students. We don't mess around anymore. I'm sure this is nothing.

[mainepatsfan]

I'm just wondering about the date. Will they want to attack on that same day again just for propaganda purposes?

[calex59]

Believe it or not its tough to infiltrate into the US. Credit card statements, wiretaps, club memberships everything is monitored now on a database. Look how quickly they caught those 12 egyptian students. We don't mess around anymore. I'm sure this is nothing.

You are assuming of course that they would be trying to come into the country legally. Sneaking across our southern border doesn't allow anyone to be checked out and the last time I looked the coyotes don't use a database to determine if their charges are terrorist or not.

[NonValueAdded]

How quickly they were caught? Yeah, in comparison to the usual amount of time to catch criminals. Hwoever, if those "students" had bad intent (hey, Aqualung!) in mind, they had plenty of time to do the deed before they were caught. No, unless we luck out every time with great work like that of Border Guard Diana Dean (thank you, Diana!!!) in stopping the millenium bomber, we are SOL. This is no time to let your guard down.

Something that really floored me from the ABC special was how a couple of guys who are motivated can bring a world of hurt down on us. Most of them might not pull it off, but as many have said, they only need to be right once.