[Pining_4_TX]

OK, I'm really confused now. There were 2 experts (ex Seals or something) on Fox News who said that it was extremely improbable terrorists would attempt an underwater/scuba attack because of all the difficulties involved. They said other methods of attack were much easier to accomplish. So, what is this all about?

[CedarDave]

Before 9/11 hijacking four planes simultaneously and flying two of them into targets together would have been thought improbable, too.

[Steve Eisenberg]

There were 2 experts (ex Seals or something) on Fox News who said that it was extremely improbable terrorists would attempt an underwater/scuba attack because of all the difficulties involved. They said other methods of attack were much easier to accomplish.

From time to time, one sees such statements to the effect that terrorists will not do X or Y because it is difficult and other types of attacks would be easier. However, there is little evidence that the terrorists the U.S. faces are interested in pulling off easy attacks. The difference between Al Quaeda and the terrorists who hit Israel is that Al Quaeda prefers to pull off difficult attacks at widely separated intervals while the Palestinian terrorists instead go for easy attacks which, because they are easy, can be executed frequently. In the long run, neither set of tactics will succeed.