targeting the new york subway cell during rush hour. in those cases they were planning terror attacks and we didn t know about them. we didn t catch them in advance. an due ma toll la almost blew up a plane in detroit. that s the fear is that essentially we re doing a very good job at stopping things and we ve gotten lucky with bombs that didn t function properly or something went wrong in a plot and we discovered it before it was too late but we re not going to always be lucky. eventually the bad guys are going to score a victory, but so far we ve been very fortunate since 9/11. is there anything out there, james, that suggests that the people whom they re keeping an eye on or hearing chatt eter ab suspected of plotting things in