Terrorism in the USA:threat & response

[Dayuhan]

Interesting, given the upthread speculation on the selection of the target and the date...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...d84_story.html

Officials: Boston suspect says bombings were initially planned for 4th of July

The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing told the FBI he and his brother initially considered committing suicide bombings and planned attacking on the Fourth of July at Boston’s large celebration along the Charles River, according to two law enforcement officials.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, said that he and his brother, Tamerlan, 26, decided to launch their attack earlier because they completed building the pressure-cooker bombs more quickly than they expected, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

Tsarnaev said they constructed the bombs in his brother’s Cambridge, Mass., apartment and considered several targets after driving around Boston in a car.

Lesson being that the selection of a target and a date can easily be over-analyzed and assigned significance that it doesn't actually have.