Well Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary also opines that there was no evidence of a wider plot. So could it be that Obama’s statement means exactly what critics are blasting him for?

I fully share Jeffrey Goldberg’s (not an Obama basher) view that the US GVT just does not understand how al-Qaeda’s ideology has colonized the minds of tens of thousands of Muslims and that a terrorist act need not be planned by al-Qaeda leaders in this age of self-radicalization and internet-based terrorist-training to be al-Qaeda inspired.