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«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.»

«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.»

«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.»

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

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

«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 steps down the path. But if you're going to wait until there are mature terrorist plans, then that runs a risk. And in this post-9/11 environment, authorities are unwilling to take that risk.»

«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.»

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

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

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