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Lots of interesting conjectures to be made about the Times Square attack this weekend. But I'm going to restrain myself, and instead point out this from a NY Times interview with Raymond Kelly, current Police Commissioner of the City of New York:

Asked if he considered the failed bombing the work of terrorists, Mr. Kelly said: “A terrorist act doesn’t necessarily have to be conducted by an organization. An individual can do it on their own.”

This is not an official pronouncement, but Kelly (formerly on the executive committee of Interpol) is one of the people most wired in to the American and international security apparatus.
I'll be posting soon about an American citizen held and about to be tried as a terrorist partly because of weak links to an organization that is not even on the official terrorist watch list.
It's possible that soon no links to any organization or person will be needed for extralegal detention and prosecution. Somebody powerful will be able to just point and say, "That one."