The terrorists were busy last month. On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, they stormed the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing the American ambassador.

All was not quiet on the home front either. After palling around online with extremist networks and toying with 29 possible targets, Adel Daoud settled on trying to bomb a Chicago bar. It would be, he thought proudly, an act of war against his fellow Americans.