[HamiltonJay]

9/11/2001 happened because the west allowed a network to grow unchecked in places like Afghanistan they could set up bases and coordinate troops and movements and plans... that doesn't exist anymore... there is no coordinated effort or attack.... when terrorists are pressured by states all they have is uncoordinated attacks...

As I said look at Israel, the terrorists rarely do more than disruptive acts, because even though they are engraned in their societies they don't have the capacity to pull it off.

9/11/2001 was the result of a president more interested in his winky than national security, a security and foreign policy based on 1960s radicalism and frankly a flying public that had been told for years, just sit back and survive if your plane had been hijacked....

It will never happen again. The "lone wolf" is really all they have left, independent cells acting on their own... which never results in anything more than disruption at best.... sure there could be a dirty nuke blown up somewhere or a chemical or biological release somewhere, but there is no coordinated attack nationwide... just sand gnats hopign for some PR to keep thier organization from completely collapsing.

[general_re]

Buying two dozen coach-class tickets doesn't require a massive infrastructure, nor does renting a Ryder truck and filling it with diesel and fertilizer, to name two recent examples....

[El Gato]

9/11/2001 happened because the west allowed a network to grow unchecked in places like Afghanistan they could set up bases and coordinate troops and movements and plans... that doesn't exist anymore... there is no coordinated effort or attack.... when terrorists are pressured by states all they have is uncoordinated attacks...

Hmm, wasn't most of the planing done in Germany? Overall coordination came from OBL in Afghanistan, but he could just as well have been in a cave in the "Northwest Frontier" provinces of Pakistan, or a coffee house in Bavaria or France, the latter was the place where Khomeni schemed to take over Iran back in the days of the Peanut President.