Al-Qaida prepare "very precise response" to Rushdie honour

Osama bin Laden's deputy has threatened to carry out attacks on Britain in retaliation for the award of a knighthood to the author Salman Rushdie.

An audiotape by Ayman al-Zawahiri, considered to be al-Qa'ida's second-in-command, declares that a "very precise response" was being prepared by the group. According to a US- based intelligence monitoring group, the tape, lasting 20 minutes and 43 seconds, entitled Malicious Britain and its Indian Slaves, was produced by "as-Sahab", which describes itself as the multimedia wing of al-Qa'ida. Link

db: A very precise response? al-Zawahiri here sounds much like the US military. As with the US military you can be sure that any 'precision' attack will involve the certain death of a number of random and wholly innocent civilians.