[Domestic Church]

"Does an organization whose operations technology involves duct taping apartments, cutting the gas lines at the stoves, and then blowing them up - sound like the same bunch of people that have operational control over nuclear weapons inside the US?

You are missing the multi tiered aspect of al qaida et al (Iran, Syria and the nations in signed defence alliance with them) and focusing only on the low level operations.

[oceanview]

where is the evidence that that alliance has allowed them to conduct any "sophisticated" operations? even in iraq, where they could get different kinds of weapons into the country easily - I see nothing but car bombs and IEDs.

We thought there was a WMD attack set for Jordan - the story has been buried, why?