Assessing Al-Qaeda (merged thread)

[Bill Moore]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/n...ners-mlj3lgf87

You can see the full article here without a subscription.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-say...-and-airports/

Do you wonder if we're gradually slipping back to 9/10? Lack of imagination? Still issues with interagency collaboration and information sharing, etc.?

“The aviation threat is real,” Wallace told British newspaper The Sunday Times. “Al-Qaeda are resurgent. They have reorganized. They are pushing more and more plots towards Europe and have become familiar with new methods and still aspire to aviation attacks.”

There is a lot of they could do this in the article, all realistic options, but still largely conjecture. In response are we focused on what we can do to mitigate these potential threats, or are we simply admiring the problem?