Collecting Expert Predictions about Terrorist Attacks
John Mueller has been collecting them: Some 116 of these Very People were surveyed in 2006 by Foreign Policy magazine in a joint project with the Center for America Progress. The magazine stressed that its survey drew from the "highest echelons of America’s foreign policy establishment" and included the occasional secretary of state and national security adviser, as well as top military commanders, seasoned members of the intelligence community, and academics and journalists of the most "distinguished" nature. Over three-quarters of them had been in government service, 41 percent for over ten years. The musings of this group, it was proposed, could provide "definitive conclusions" about the global war on terror. The Very People were asked to put forward their considered opinions about how likely it was that "a terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11" would again occur in the United States by the end of 2011 -- that is, by last Saturday. Fully 70 percent found it likely and another 9 percent proclaimed it to be certain. Only 21 percent, correctly as we now know, considered it unlikely. I've never heard this particular quote before, and find it particularly profound: In 2004, Russell Seitz plausibly proposed that "9/11 could join the Trojan Horse and Pearl Harbor among stratagems so uniquely surprising that their very success precludes their repetition".... More predictions here....
Source: Schneier on Security - Tuesday, 10 January
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