An IQ test for Al Qaeda?

These Terrorists do not seem to be the brightest bunch.

Although they did pull off the largest peacetime attack in history on 911; since then they have had their list of duds. Richard Reed, the "Shoe bomber" could not get his matches lit to set off his bomb; many of the planned terrorist attacks since 911 have been thwarted because the potential terrorist was working with a government informant; and in the case of the Colorado terrorist traveling to New York for his "mission", his mistake was working with an informant that was a Muslim Imam.

But this recent try at blowing up a plane flying from Amsterdam to Detroit makes you wonder if Al Qaeda gives these "geniuses' any kind of IQ test. Here was a guy that boarded a plane with a powerful explosive hidden in the crotch of his underpants. Not only did he fail to trigger this bomb that he supposedly assembled himself, he was about to blow his "family jewels" to smithereens just before meeting up with his 72 virgins. Makes you wonder doesn't it?

But if you think about it, Al Qaeda has to walk a fine line - first they have to find someone smart enough to learn how to assemble, conceal, and then denote a bomb they are wearing, while at the same time that person has to be stupid enough to blow themselves up in the name Allah.