[Rutles4Ever]

The question is, when have they NOT been planning an attack on U.S. soil? ABC is getting in a dither about some documents in Iraq, and behind the scenes, we've probably broken up more of these planned attacks here in the last few years than we probably care to know.

Eventually, some loose cannon is going to break away from the Al Qaeda apparatus, get a couple people, and do it on their own.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Eventually, some loose cannon is going to break away from the Al Qaeda apparatus, get a couple people, and do it on their own."

I'm glad that al Queda only thinks in grandiose terms, which means they spend a lot of time planning and scheming and not actually committing terrorist attacks. The DC sniper showed what just one guy with a rifle can do to get the whole country on edge. They could do a lot of small-scale, inexpensive stuff that would be very hard to prevent or detect, and would have a tremendous impact on the public psyche. They could start forest fires, random murders, random arson, poison water supplies, sabotage the power grid, etc, and probably not be caught for a long time.