re: #328 Surabaya Stew

The second one. This trail will be done in 12 months from now, and from knowledge of Al-Q, it’s not likely that an entirely new terrorist plot will be hatched, plotted, and executed in that time frame. An existing terrorist plot? That’s a whole different matter; one could conceive of Terrorists moving up the date of an attack to coincide with an event, ala the 2005 bombings in London. However, that would just be a matter of when, and it wouldn’t change the reality that (like you said) NYC would be a target without KSM. It’s a sort of “damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation.

How do you know that there is not a terrorist plot almost ready to go RIGHT now and they are just waiting for a good reason?