Originally Posted by sinanju

The next attack won't be aviation. Here are the required ingredients:

• Shaky economy
• Troubled retailer
• Three random locations in the US
• Christmas shopping season

If suicide bombers were to target a single troubled retailer, say Sears, with bombings over a period of a few days, they could very effectively put that retailer out of business, seriously damage the US economy -- in the economy's current state it could create a very deep recession, and do untold damage to the American collective psyche.

Are we going to have a "papers, please" environment in our shopping malls?