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.

Terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s was carried out by relatively discreet, identifiable groups, … Terrorism in the 1990s is carried out by ad hoc conspiracies.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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 —...

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...

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.

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

I would suspect, … that the odds of being killed as a result of a terrorist use of biological substances are even greater than that.

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...

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.

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

That means that as opposed to waiting for full-fledged conspiracies, they may be picking up individuals when they are still in the early part of this [recruiting] trajectory. They may have only taken a few...

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.

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.

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

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

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

[The Jordanians] run a very, very tight ship in terms of security so they have been able to foil a number of attacks, … But particularly with the war in Iraq, there will be more...

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,