Even after four and a half years after 9/11, the mind set of the guy fro the west attracted to the terrorist life style leads me still to believe that they are a bunch of morons fed more on too many James Bond baddies than the Koran who got incredibly incredibly lucky. This testimony from the trial at the Old Bailey does nothing to shake my opinion:

Babar, who was escorted by two U.S. marshals and protected by armed British officers outside the courtroom doors, claimed Mahmood said "you could get a job in a soccer stadium as a beer vendor." "You just put poison in a syringe, inject it in a beer can and put a sticker on it, which would stop it leaking, and hand them out," Babar said, recounting Mahmood's proposal. He said he also suggested getting "a mobile vending cart selling burgers, just poison those. You could set up a shop on a street corner and sell poisoned burgers and then all you have to do is leave the area."

First, it strikes me that when you have plans like that and you still can't pull it off in, say, a week you have some issues with actual initiative levels that a group like the IRA or ETA or the PLO never really had problems with. Then, it is kind of a nutty low level plan. Why not hit a brewery at the manufacturing level or a meat production facility? Something about the limited goals is more than a bit half-arsed for the big evil. And then, later in the story, the old fall back to picking up some ammonium nitrate by the half-ton. No one is watching those sales anymore. You know they aren't.

Yes, it is true this bunch will likely do great evil again and cause untold pain and suffering to innocents. But masterminds they are not. Just wicked morons.