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Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article6973988.ece
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's Wake-Up Call from Al-Qaeda
(Times-UK) Editorial - With its loosely affiliated franchises, its dedicated core of jihadists and its ruthless obsession with blowing planes out of the sky, al-Qaeda is a formidable adversary. Worse, its adherents are prepared - indeed happy - to die for its cause. It seems entirely predictable that this war with al-Qaeda will lead to more attempted terrorist outrages. And inevitably they will get lucky. The one bright spark is that al-Qaeda's technical shortcomings meant no one died. So we got this wake-up call for free and would be foolish not to heed it.