Al-Qaida warning of new attacks
WASHINGTON - Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is promising more small-scale attacks like its attempts to bomb two United States-bound cargo planes, which it likens to bleeding its enemy to death by a thousand cuts, in a special edition of the Yemeni-based group's English online magazine, Inspire.
The editors boast that what they call Operation Hemorrhage was cheap, and easy, using common items that together with shipping, costing only $4,200 to carry out.
Alerted to the late October bomb plot by Saudi intelligence, security officials chased the packages across five countries, trying frantically over the next two days to prevent an explosion that could have come at any moment. The pursuit showed that even when the world's counter-terrorism systems work, preventing an attack is often a terrifyingly close ordeal.
