They Lack American Know-How
What is there to say about the Times Square incident? As Fallenmonk points out it was not too bright. Even Newsbiscuit has satirized it.
To be accurate, there were no explosives involved in the attempt. Gunpowder, gasoline, and propane are all flammables, and the fertilizers you buy in Lowes or Home Depot are neither flammable, nor explosive. There are compounds that can be used both as fertilizer and a low-grade explosive, but they aren’t stocked by “home improvement” stores.
Obviously if this guy had gone to gun shows or hung around with survivalists, like Timothy McVeigh, he might have learned how to do it properly. [It is more likely that he would have disappeared if he had attempted it.] It would appear that the “al Qaeda” terrorist camp was just a rip-off, like a lot of trade schools that advertise in the back of magazines or on dubious web sites. It wouldn’t have been quite as bad if it hadn’t paralleled the Glasgow Airport attack, which was slightly more successful, in that there was a large fire at the airport. It’s probably a chain of bad terrorist training camps for gullible Muslims living in the West, similar to dude ranches.
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Terrorist dude ranches… bwahaha! Yeah, America, like Israel, is blessed in its enemies. If we had attacks like 9/11 every day, our government would have long ago collapsed into a bunch of bedwetters running in circles wringing their hands, and some strongman would have taken charge and imposed a dictatorship that would have made Hitler look like nice guy. Let’s all hope that our enemies stay incompetent… otherwise the incompetence of our own government would be fatal to our democracy.
– Badtux the Blessed Penguin
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They obviously don’t have any infrastructure in the US worth spit, or the attempts wouldn’t be so incompetent. It could be that the wingers are stockpiling everything and the professional terrorists don’t have access to the “interesting” stuff.
Of course, it is possible that if you assembled this mess in Pakistan it would work like a charm because the local gas cylinders don’t have pressure release valves, and the local fertilizer is explosive. There are a lot things available in the third world that are no longer sold in the US.