Captain Haddock, I don't fully believe that this was all planned by the government but I do suspect. With people here in US and UK turning extremely against war in Iraq and Israel-Lebanon, there is a great need for support. If Iran and Syria is to be attacked by US and its allies, it would need support from other governments and their own people. Having constant terror threats would make people belive that they are being targeted by outsiders who need to be punished before they can succeed with the attack. This would mean a preemptive war just like in Iraq. Besides, before the 2004 election we saw so many terror high alerts like Orange, Yellow in US during each and every holiday or at almost any occasion. And right after Bush won the election there were very few if any such alerts. So does the government want us to believe that so many terror threats from last few months went to almost no alerts in these recent few months? It was all BS, and people here in US still buy to it. CIA operates in every part of the world. Anyone could be a CIA. Not just an american citizen. Especially government official from poor countries who are very corrupt could easily be bought by CIA. I sometime wonder if Deuba is not a part of CIA. He came to US so many times, and we all thought and still think he has such a good relationship with US. I wonder why.