Ben Venzke Quotations

What we're seeing is an increase in the evolutionary pace of IED (improvised explosive device) design. It's increasing at a pace we previously haven't seen.

We believe that this signifies this is a warning message, and they feel they're obligated (to give) in the run-up to an attack.

Based on an initial review of the footage, it would seem to indicate the downing of a helicopter and the removal of crew and passengers from the craft.

They got condemned when they aired large portions of those videos. Then they started showing smaller clips and they got criticized for hiding the message. They're damned if they do and damned if they don't.

E-commerce sites need to be alert for Trojan horses,

They could have simply been told, 'Enter the United States, learn how to fly these types of planes,' ... They may not have known ultimately where this was headed or what the goal was. Then as that became necessary, they could have been in communication with other members of other cells who would have given them other directions.

If you shut it down, it will be back in about five seconds in a million other locations.

The trick with all these attacks is, when does it rise to the level of being noteworthy?

A lot of media attention is paid to how much Christmas shopping is done online. The effect is to call attention to those sites doing the largest dollar amounts of those sales. That becomes a motivating force for the entrepreneurial criminal.