Forget I said anything:

Below the original post, which is now retracted. Although the @purpav link is still worth reading.

Now, I don’t want to speculate but now feel it’s time for a slight amount of speculation. Assuming these newest attacks are true, this might be prompted by Al Zawahiri’s recent call for micro-sized, loan-wolf style attacks on America, rather than Al Qaeda’s signature large-scale ones. Zawahiri urged such attacks, in order to paralyze the American economy,