"Seems like the element of surprise would have been before 9/11?" It sounds like you're saying that you'd be surprised if he did anything else, i.e., you don't expect it (the "if he had them, he'd have used them" theory, etc.) If so, I think that makes my case.
If you want to worry about something. Worry about a big truck bomb. Say 10 tons of ANFO in a cement mixer truck. Or Anthrax in the cocaine supply. These guys aren't geniuses, just stupid terrorists. They hate us so much the'll use a nuke or any other thing, the day they get it. November 22th is a day really important to them. G H W Bush set foot on Arab soil that day in 1990. Thanksgiving.
Me. I think we're winning big time and they're on the run all over the world. BL's only got a few hours left.