Al Qaida has made a training video that that approves of exactly this kind of an operation.
Here's two tactics of many mentioned on the tape.
- Using pickup trucks with shooters concealed in the bed of the trucks;
- use of tunnels, storm drains and sewers for infiltration during urban raids.
New al Qaida training tape shows another side of terror
Another Freeper posted an article dated 5/23/02 about the warnings made to our FBI by a key al Qaida figure, Abu Zadayah. He specifically mentioned shopping centers as targets.
I don't know how anyone can dismiss the strong possibility that this is a terrorist operation in light of everything we've learned since 9/11.
I remember that warning, "Stay out of the Malls!"