This might be an understatement, especially in light of all the rhetoric put out over the past year that ITS coming, and coming , and coming and coming and coming, etc. This could work against them if it is perceived that they are losing face, they may become careless, unlike in the past where there were no external time pressures to perform.
Are you saying that al qaeda is seething and bubbling like hot molten lava inside a volcanoe ready to erupt?