[HenryArmitage]

'But having said that he may well be right. If I were the terrorists instead of trying to hit the expected targets I’d try to go after someplace rural and unexpected. The goal of terrorism is to terrorize (duh!).'
true. but terrorists very rarely will call themselves, or believe they are terrorists. They believe they are soliders in a war, or holy mission. So they will choose targets that they feel have a strategic or spiritual value. Or at least one they can 'claim' is a valid target. They have difficulty mailing a postal bomb to Grandma McTuff in the middle of no where Montana and then claim a moral or strategic victory to their followers.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Agree when it comes to the lone-wolf type of terrorist. But if you’ve got a state or AQ sponsored cell of terrorists who are following some sort of grand long term strategy, then I think I would strongly disagree.