al Qaeda in the U.S. or on their Way?!

A real threat or are the neocons wagging the dog, again:

Senior U.S. intelligence officials tell ABC News new intelligence suggests a small al Qaeda cell is on its way to the United States, or may already be here.

The White House has convened an urgent multi-agency meeting for Thursday afternoon to deal with the new threat.

It just seems too convenient that at a time when the Bush administration is facing a serious crisis that they should be warning about a terror threat, which worked for them in the past. Remember how this White House used a fear of terrorism in 2004 to get 4 more years:

Brian Ross: Not hard, but good. It's being taken very seriously, in connection with increased chatter, e-mail traffic back and forth, the attacks in London, and a general concern, as Secretary Chertoff said today, that summer seems to be a time that al Qaeda likes to attack.

Charles Gibson: And there's been a bunch of tapes that have been coming from al Qaeda lately. al Qaeda failed in their latest attack. They'll want to finish the job.

But we shouldn't disregard Zawahiri's frequent videos lately:

Al-Qaida's deputy leader threatened a jittery Britain on Tuesday with more attacks, accusing London of defying the Islamic world by honoring novelist Salman Rushdie.