"WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE OHMIGOD OHMIGOD OHMIGOD ...!!"

Um ... OK, maybe not:

But authorities said there was no evidence that the plotters had taken any actions, such as buying explosives or sending money. They cast doubt on the feasibility of initial reports, which first appeared in the New York Daily News, that terrorists sought to flood Lower Manhattan and the Financial District by bombing tunnels.

There were conflicting assessments among U.S. counterterrorism officials about the significance of the alleged plot.

Two U.S. counterterrorism officials, speaking on the condition that their names and agencies not be identified because the FBI is the government's lead agency, discounted the ability of the conspirators to carry out an attack.

One said the alleged plot was "not as far along" as described and was "more aspirational in nature." The other described the threat as "jihadi bravado," adding "somebody talks about tunnels, it lights people up," but that there was little activity to back up the talk.

The danger here, of course, is that all that jihadi bravado gets out of hand, someone goes a bit too far and, before you know it, they're all out in the parking lot, cock-slapping each other Jeff Goldstein-style.

Then things get really ugly.