[CedarDave]

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

[Pining_4_TX]

Well, if it were just an average person's opinion, I would agree with you, but these 2 men (as I said, both were ex special ops guys) said that it would take too many hours of training and too much expertise and equipment for these terrorists. In fact, they said they thought these men had begun scuba training but abandoned it when they saw how difficult it would be to attack using this method. Both experts said it is much easier to blow a bridge or something by hijacking a fuel truck.

[jwalburg]

Yeah. Bridges, highways and dams would be likely targets.
It takes forever to secure funds and then finish those projects.

[spetznaz]

There are times when i wonder if terrorist groups, some of the people we have in the detention centers, and even some pranksters out there are not churning out false info. The terrorists and detainees may be doing it to saturate the authorities with tasks that exceed their capabilities (aftre all there is only a finite number of things the Feds can do), and maybe the objectives of the pranksters is a laugh from seeing their 'threat' get printed on the morning paper as a 'federal warning.'

I guess the main problem the Feds are facing is the trade-off between just concentrating on 'credible threats,' and the risk of refusing to follow a certain 'ludicrous' threat, and that threat becomes a reality (eg before 9-11 the events that happened that morning would have been classified as 'highly improbable').

Let's just say that the FBI is finding itself under such a punitive work load that i doubt it will even be able to deal with what we can now call 'normal' crime like kidnappings and big-style theft! And with all these 'threat' flying left right and center there is a chance they will be so inundiated with 'leads' that the real one may penetrate their over-loaded dragnets!

And that will lead to another cycle of 'why did you not know?' Saddening!