The smaller attacks will not do what OBL & Co. wants done. Fear of small attacks will not cause America to lose it's superpower status -- or willingness to project such power. Their goal is to cause imperial overstretch and foster an economic inability that cripples projection of US power in the world. Small attacks do nothing to that end ... especially not in a country of the size of the US. OBL's near-term fantasy is to see the US engage Iran in a reckless manner (like Iraq).

OBL & Co. hasn't thought of everything. He even thought the 9/11 attack idea was a nut's fantasy -- worth a pig's arse for dinner -- until his son said it could be done and done successfully. Then he made it his own.