WASHINGTON - The weekend's attempted attacks in London and Glasgow are a distressing sign that Osama Bin Laden's expanding influence has instigated a two-tiered terror war, with Al Qaeda organizing 9/11-like attacks and its homegrown cronies carrying out limited, random strikes.

"If you're a counterterrorism official in Washington this morning, you have two concerns: the big attacks and the small ones," Al Qaeda expert Peter Bergen said yesterday.

The "spectacular" attacks will likely always be the domain of Bin Laden's henchmen. But easier-to-execute small-scale hits, which many experts fear are in our future, will be the work of wanna-bes.

"The small ones are not going to be 9/11, but they will cause public stress," said Bergen, who interviewed Bin Laden for CNN a decade ago...

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