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However, a “shopping mall” is a bit fractured for them to gather up people....schools would be easier to control.....in stores you’d have more adults who would think about running out back doors, etc....and scattering....in schools....it would be different....mostly children who would not think about running away.

I couldn’t disagree more. They aren’t motivated by ‘getting everybody’...they want to create an economic ‘shock’, which they got with 9/11 in spades. Can you think of a place better suited to get the point across to ‘average Americans’ than a shopping mall?

Second point, exits from schools aren’t as easily discernible then shopping malls, which are all based on a ‘wheel pattern’...the ‘spokes’ of which contain exists at the end of each. Pick the four corners of the compass, enter and begin shooting. The ‘flow’ will go in the opposite direction - its human nature. And we know whats in the ‘middle’ of every shopping mall in this nation, a ‘food court’. Usually visable from above, btw, in malls with two or more levels.

You want to curtail consumer shopping? Make it a death trap conceived by four to six jihadist/homicide bombers.

Its all ‘speculation’ but I think my scenario requires far less planning, with a much greater potential for economic ‘shock effect’ which the bin Laden’s of the world target routinely.

My next ‘favorite’ scenario (I know thats a weird way of putting it, btw) is an attack at a nationally covered sporting event.

One of the two Monday Night Football games will be played in Cincinnati tonight.....and the timing is evident given today’s date.

Beslan was Shamil Basayev. His specialties were places like hospitals and schools, where the subjects were easily intimidated and more vulnerable.

Additionally I doubt that Americans would be as open to being bribed for the advance placement of the explosives that took place at Beslan.