Report: Would-be plane bombers post attack details

[Valin]

AP/Townhall:

11/20/10

Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is promising more small-scale attacks like its attempts to bomb two U.S.-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 on-line magazine, Inspire.

The editors boast that what they call Operation Hemorrhage was cheap, and easy, using common items that together with shipping, cost only $4,200 to carry out.

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In the magazine, an author identified as the group's head of foreign operations says the package attacks were intended to cause economic harm, not casualties. "We knew that cargo planes are staffed by only a pilot and a co-pilot," the author writes, "so our objective was not to cause maximum casualties but to cause maximum losses to the American economy," by striking at the multi-billion dollar U.S. freight industry.

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It's move and counter move.

The question is when will they figure out they don't have to always actually commit an attack, just leak that they are going to attack.

[Pepper]

"The question is when will they figure out they don't have to always actually commit an attack, just leak that they are going to attack."--Valin

 

Valin

 

They already figured that out. We react.

[Valin]

"The question is when will they figure out they don't have to always actually commit an attack, just leak that they are going to attack."--Valin

 

Valin

 

They already figured that out. We react.

 

 

React? Sometimes it's more like we are running around waving our arms screaming and hollering!

[Argyle58]

Yeah, and we'll probably react with a TSA style solution.

[Pepper]

Sounds like the typical liberal reaction to me.

 

"The question is when will they figure out they don't have to always actually commit an attack, just leak that they are going to attack."--Valin

 

Valin

 

They already figured that out. We react.

 

 

React? Sometimes it's more like we are running around waving our arms screaming and hollering!