I am wondering if it was the terrorist or the Seattle police who caused the
blackout in the NE. Coincidence?

Talk about a power shortage.........

Your parody deviates from the original remark in an important aspect. The
original question was whether a terrorist could have caused the blackout, with
an immediately stated conclusion that the arrest of two terrorists atempting to
fly to NYC from Seattle the previous day was probably coincidental.

At the risk of pointing out the painfully obvious, you posed the question with
an alternate of choice as suggested answers. Not the same thing. It is only
marginally more reasonable to conclude that a terrorist caused the power
shortage than
to conclude it was caused by the Seattle Police. The Seattle Police have a ZERO
percent involvement with the outage, so terrorists have a zero, plus a couple,
percent probability of being the cause.

Unlike the terrorists, the Seattle Police have *not* claimed responsibility for
the blackout.