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WHY?
Pretty much any time anyone starts getting goofy on an airplane the people on the plane almost immediately subdue them. Buildings are being hardened against truck bombs, and all explosive materials are very closely inventoried and controlled. A bulk purchase of ammonium nitrate fertilizer will likely get you a visit from the FBI or ATF, and even then it's difficult to even get a truckbomb close enough to a building to have much effect. Really, the only options that are even open to AQ at this point are the mass shootings vis a vis the mumbai and now kenya mall attacks. However, a very big difference is here in the US there are a lot more armed guards, all police are armed, even a non-trivial number of citizens are armed. Could they do it? yea, but they will have the best results in "gun free" zones.