Times Square Bomb: $12,000

Ackerman leafs through the DOJ indictment of Faisal Shahza:

So for $12,000, the Pakistani Taliban thought it could demonstrate global reach.And it clearly found a contractor in Shahzad. It's tempting to say, inthe wake of the plot's failure, that the TTP got what it paid for. Butthe failure is less important than the demonstration that attempts atterrorism plotted halfway around the world are extraordinarilyinexpensive, while the tools of counterterrorists — war, surveillance,homeland...