Coming soon to a shopping mall near you.
These guys are game-changers.
I think that the Christmas Day attack was rather an impromptu affair. I think Abdulmutallab walked into the al-Qaida office in Yemen, and told them he wanted to kill himself by blowing up a plane-ful of Americans. They looked him over, said "OK",and enrolled him in a "training program" just so they could keep an eye on him long enough to check him out a bit. Then they bought him a ticket, packed his pants, and drove him to the airport. They left some of the operational details up to him, and this resulted in the bomb's failure.
I don't think we'll see a similar plan next time. Next time, they'll be home-grown.
No passport/visa issues, no "watch list" problems. No international cell phone intercepts. Lots simpler. Much more difficult to predict. Even "profiling" won't help. They will be Americans who've never been to the Middle East. Citizens. Under the radar. Educated middle-classers. Dozens of them.
Oklahoma City.
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