What was the motivation for the attack, and how much planning went into it? If a group of people show up and throw stones at an embassy, that's a "terrorist attack." There are people bringing up the use of mortars and rocket propelled grenades as if this indicates some long-term "plan." There might be something to that if it were not Libya we were talking about -- a place where a myriad of yahoos raided weapons caches after the U.S. went blundering in there, and who rove about looking for mischief on a daily basis.