Is this true?? I don't know

This story is making the rounds on the internet over the last two days. (ed: This is the same story as was printed in womanswallstreet.com and blogged by us here as well) Lucianne banned the article on Wednesday and Thursday saying the site was a special interest and not a news site.  Today its in the must read section at the top of the page. 
 
Read it for yourself.  I'm not sure if I would have been worried or not, but one thing does strike me.  

1.     Terrorists want to kill as many people as possible and generate as much publicity as possible. 
2.    Blowing up one airliner would be bad, but it would only kill at most a few hundred people.  3.   And worse (from a terrorist point of view), the aircraft could be said to go down because of other reasons, engine failure etc so the bad guys might not get any credit for the act. 

So I'm not sure if I can see the benefit of the bad guys blowing up an airplane in flight, unless its just after take off or landing so the reckage would cause damage, but that is very hap-hazard and they don't have that many resources (bombers) who could execute a mission like that in the US.  Remember they would be suffering from culture shock just as much as you or I would if we go to the Middle East.  New languages, customs and the like can be difficult to work with, especially since they know they will be more likely to be watched and if they make any mistakes in their cover, they will be caught.

From around the web:

Redstate points to some inconsistencies and concludes "it's a hoax". Tom at Stromata agrees.
 
However, Michelle has confirmed some of the basic facts from the Federal Air Marshals Service.
 
Glenn Reynolds runs it down.
 
Parts of the Volokh Conspiracy are first concerned with the authencity and then wonders when the media will pick it up to find answers
 
Clayton Cramer has "completely lost patience with the ACLU's whining about "racial profiling."

Finally, my dude, Lileks takes up the security at any costs drumbeat:

I tell you, something like this happens on a big scale – lots of planes dropping out of the sky, half the country is going to ask for detention camps. All because we didn't dare delay or inconvenience self-professed bands of Syrian "musicians" because it might suggest we were (gasp) dispositionally suspicious of a dozen Syrians clutching violin cases. Is profiling a good idea?