It makes me laugh that a crazy bugger like Alex Jones would warn of an imminent terror attack and intend to use such an event to achieve credibility as a visionary. Anyone who reads the news and is aware of Middle East events knows we're overdue for an attack. Things grow worse by the day in Iraq, and the fact that Hezbollah has been so heavily covered in recent weeks makes Al Qaeda increasingly likely, as we're just seen with the liquid-explosive plot, to want to regain some of its market share of publicity. There was a really good NYTimes piece just last week about the fiercely competitive nature of the anti-western terrorist organizations.

An attack may well happen by the end of October, but Jones shouldn't take any credit for the prediction. He will try, of course. But any terrorist attack on U.S. soil or U.S. overseas interests will simply be something that anyone with the most basic understanding of world events has been able to see the likelihood of for far longer than Jones has been looking into his crystal ball. Jones has all the visionary credibility of a weather man looking at at an American map and saying, "Somewhere in the U.S. it will rain before October 31."