Moving away from the expensive and carefully coordinated attacks of September 11 on New York and the 7/7 London bombs, al Qaeda in Yemen says it is now going to focus on smaller, cheaper strikes in an effort to bleed the enemy to death through a strategy of a thousand cuts.
Chambliss discusses al Qaeda's shift to cheaper, smaller attacks to weaken the U.S. economy.
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