Brian Jenkins Quotations

If we're going to fly them, put passengers in them, luggage, freight, parcels, then we're going to make hundreds of compromises with security. It's only a question of how many compromises.

If this happened before 9/11, I'm not certain they would have brought it into a courtroom. They might have let it unfold a bit.

Get the plane on the ground. Let the authorities deal with the hijackers. As in a mugging, the thing you don't want to do is grab the pistol out of the mugger's hand. Give the mugger your wallet. In a hijacking the proper thing to do is sit tight and not challenge the hijackers.

What we've learned from the British experience is that if people are admonished to notify authorities of suspicious activity or abandoned parcels, if you then readily have communications systems for them to do that -- telephones that are marked -- and you provide rapid response when reports are made, then in effect you have closed the loop.

He said he was driving on U.S. 250 and said someone ran in front of him.

I was looking for a space heater today, which I found, but a lot of the other stuff I bought isn't stuff that I really need.

It is a great source of concern when any of these procedures are not being followed. One is always going to find a violation here or there, but an indication that ignoring the rules is widespread practice is shocking and deplorable.

I think that is the lesson of the Israeli efforts over the years.

When you're dealing with a disparate host of terrorist foes over time, as the Israelis have confronted, then it has less effect.

We are now dealing with many little al-Qaidas with the potential of neighborhood al-Qaidas. They may not be able to carry out specialized operations ... but they can still operate at a lethal level.

We believed or hoped that the tactic of a suicide bombing would not be exported. This is a new threat for us.

Do we want to chase them out of the subways and into the streets? Probably yes.

The results of the probe are disturbing, but they are not surprising. People believe what they see or what they think they see. Deception and disguise often work.

The results of the probe are disturbing, but they are not surprising,

This is not the Prussian general staff. They don't think about operations the way we think about operations.

This demonstrates their resolve and courage to impact us, to create fear. But it also is aimed at their own audience, their own constituents to demonstrate their prowess to their own warrior subculture.

This is the way cults recruit. To a certain extent ... this is the way armies recruit.

It is shocking but not a surprise. The components of these things have been seen before.

These threats are real, ... but the increased probability of a terrorist attack does not increase the risks to any single individual.

The Internet gives them direct access. It even allows them to segment their audiences so they can communicate with potential recruits, with those who are already in the organization, and with broader sympathetic audiences as well as their enemy. They can do ... modern marketing and these communications have enabled them to be very, very effective and they've been increasingly adept in exploiting this. I don't think we have yet fully fathomed the sophistication of their communication strategy.

I'll get today out of the way first before deciding on a final plan of attack, but it's probably either the Hawkes Bay Guineas next or the Caulfield Guineas,

How did they come in? How were they dressed? What were they carrying? What did they look like?