attacks that are less skilled and therefore with a lower probability of success, but now here's the very bad part. probably a lot more numerous. >> let's turn now to msnbc terror analyst evan kohlmann. >> thanks for having me. >> they both seemed to be less than prepared. are we victims of our own success here? we've shut down the pros and we're dealing with the amateurs. >> al qaeda fired a bunch of cells at us, people trying to go after our sub systems, we had najibullah zazi here, any time you have a lot of training, communications and what not, that gets stopped. so al qaeda has made a conscious decision here they're going to start moving towards people whose only credential is the idea they have western passports or western citizenship or they're able to cross borders or they don't fit a profile. that's the new credential. the idea is if we don't invest a lot in these people we can just fire these people off like