Oops, Another Al-Qaeda Failure

OK, so it's DEBKA - take it with a grain of salt.

But this is still very interesting, and has a better ring of truth than some DEBKAfile articles. Apparently, a major counter-espionage effort thwarted a major Al-Qaeda offensive.

It does say something, however, when even the rumors of a "mega-terror offensive" are all centered around events that were supposed to happen in Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Kenya. So, even in their greatest plans for right now, they aren't figuring on hitting us.

This isn't to say that they aren't still a threat to the US; they most certainly are. But they aren't anywhere as severe a threat as they were say 18 months ago.

We have made some pretty decent strides in our war on terrorism. The fact that they are trying to hit us outside our borders is a good sign.

We still have a ways to go, but we're in pretty good shape so far.