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Originally Posted by Staypuft
Frankly I'm happy that things like this are happening even if there was no "imminent threat". Good lord I'd rather the governments be too careful than not careful enough.
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I don't think you'll get much argument there, but if they had held off a bit longer perhaps would they now be holding the remaining (missing) suspects?
We'll never know.
You have to trust that all parties did what they thought was right, but this article raises the spectre that perhaps there were other alternatives in the timing.
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Originally Posted by calculoso
That said, it was also the reason of why the threat level didn't elevate until late too - would have been too much warning to those who were arrested.
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I agree with that. From what little I know, it sounds like the actual arrests were performed very well.
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