KEPHART: Terror reboots  Cargo plot reveals a new terror calling
card  While al Qaeda’s obsession with trains, planes and
automobiles gets another blow - this time from what some are
calling a first-ever tip from a double agent placed inside al
Qaeda by Saudi Arabia - no one is noticing that al Qaeda’s
recent cargo plot left out a suicide bomber. Or, at least, no
one is talking about it.  Perhaps al Qaeda is just getting
creative with its plots, but the information we have learned to
date suggests that al Qaeda is increasingly worried about
getting its fingerprints on a plot, most particularly a suicide
bomber’s. Why? Operatives have fingerprints, and a lot of other
biometrics. Packages do not. Operatives have histories,
knowledge and networks. Packages are once removed from such
information. Al Qaeda’s mounting failures are carrying
operational and strategic costs to the organization and
operational and strategic gains for the United States. Every
foiled plot brings about lessons learned about terrorist trav