If this were the case (and there is already the police description out looking for TWO MEN in a vehicle), we'd be fools to think anymore that this is not terrorism directed not at the citizens of Virginia, DC and Maryland, but against all of us in the United States.It could be a test of how this would work, or moreover, it could be a means to distract the American populace as a whole, while "other" things are being put in place...
sure. you bet. it could be anything. could be a way to subvert upcoming elections if people were hit standing in line to vote, or disrupt Halloween as parents dont want their costumed kids lying face down in blood.
Bastards could say 'attack Iraq and you get more of these'. That would be a potent way to terrorize the soccer moms, who would drop support of the war and hope that if we 'could all just be friends in the Middle East' this would all go away.... a lot of interesting parameters here.