Sorry this will be so short, but I've only seen maybe one mention of this in the last week and, to me, it seems of the utmost importance and I have very little confidence in our leadership being able to handle everything right now. So.
If I were Al Qaeda, I would be doing everything humanly possible to strike now. If there were any large plans for a strike against the US, I would be trying to do it NOW. Think of the potency of it. Not only could a seriously crippling strike be launched, but the PR of it would be tremendous to supporters and enemies. It would illustrate more clearly than anything that has come before that we have, not just the ablility, but also the will, to deliver a death blow.
I certainly hope that the intelligence community is on highest alert as this would seem the perfect time for the perfect monstrosity.
For the record, I am not a terrorist. This nightmare just jumped out at me yesterday as I watched all this misery and realized that our nation has fallen into a myopic, tunnel vision on this and that that presents a potentially perfect abysmal opportunity.