Yes, it was. And I've had things planned for months before I execute them.

For an example:
As many may have gathered, I work in IT. In fact, I returned to college to up my degree, and am spending the summer working for the IT department at my school. For several months, we've been planning on cleaning out the room we use to store our dead and obsolete machines in, while looking for a disposal vender. Last week, we got news that it needed to go NOW, becuase on Monday, we are loosing a wall to that room. So, we selected a vender, who was going to be picking up the material tommorrow at 2pm.

At noon today, we got a call that the vender's truck was waiting for us. So, without any pallets (which we were going to be picking up tonight) or shrink wrap, and only half the people we planned on, we loaded just under 4 tons (accroding to the driver) of equipment in 90 minutes. All by hand, with only a tiny elevator and hand trucks.

Lack of time can be compensated for by planning and knowing your team. If these guys had good recon, and time to sand table this, maybe even play the tourist, they could have gone with only a few hours notice. Review the plans, load the bombs and the guys in a minivan. Two drivers who swap off so they both can nap. The plans don't seem that complicated, we just like to think they were becuase there were mulitple, near simulatanous attacks. That's easy- timers.

Yes, my senario menas that they had to also look at Paris. How many people tour Europe for a long vacation? Not hard- spend a 4-6 days checking out London, another 4-6 checking out Paris. A week to plan. Maybe there were two cells? Harder on thier operational security, but easy on the cells. The go signal is the selection of the Olympic city. If thier city wins, that city looses.

If anything, the stations that were hit makes me think that it wasn't perfectly executed. Paddington wasn't touched, but in thier shoes, I might have. (Isn't Paddington London's answer to Penn Station?) The bus feels like it was an afterthought, or there was a lot of buses that weren't hit.

Again, this type of thing wouldn't be complicated. Anyone with infantry training could pull it off. At least I hope any military that deserves the description should be teaching how to coordinate simulatous attacks with multiple elements. Even if you restrict it to NCOs and junior officers, what percentage of the world's males does that include?

Now I'm really depressed, becuase I know this stuff is probably being echeloned by the NSA, and my file is getting thicker. <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />