Recently, two very well publicized arrests of terror suspects have ocurred. The first was of a cell in Florida. Fortunately, they seem to have been fairly incompetent. The second happened just this week with the arrest of several alleged participants in a plot to more or less destroy the Holland Tunnel and flood all of Manhattan's financial district. This is certainly the more troubling of the two roll-ups. A computer science professor with grand illusions for the Muslim ummah to recapture Spain (al-Andalusia), was arrested in Lebanon forwarding maps and other communications to as-yet unnamed conspirators around the globe.
What does all of this mean? So far, we can say two things: our counterterror forces are not taking any information for granted; second, as bin-Ladin has stipulated, al-Qaeda is still trying to attack the United States at home. He alluded to as much in his recent eulogy of Abu Mus'ab al Zarqawi. And we also know that the plot they are trying to unleash will make September 11th pale in comparrison (see Ron Suskind's new book, "The One Percent Doctrine," which revealed a plot to gas the NY subways was withdrawn, ostensibly because it wouldn't cause enough damage).
They will be successful as some point in time, we just have to keep working diligently to prevent them.
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