[tmp02]

Nukes in the states don't make sense to me...why would terrorist use planes or smaller attacks, which I believe was attempted earlier this year, only to be out done by nukes...it seems to be a waste of time to plan small attacks only to clean them up with a nuke...

[milkncookies]

I'll take a SWAG at that tmp02. This is not my opinion, but others have a strong conviction that AQ and related terrorist groups are simply "front" organizations for a larger, much more malicious state(s) sponsorship. These individuals argue that by staging numerous "small scale" attacks over an extended period of time by AQ and related groups "we" (i.e. general population, government ) will be convinced that when the big blow(s) comes, there will be no question in our minds as to who carried it out. At that point how do we respond? Who can we go after if in fact there is no apparent country or government behind it?