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There's absolutely no doubt that executing him would turn him into a martyr.

It's like Sun Tzu, the Chinese strategist, said years ago. Only if you know your enemy can you win the battle.

And that becomes the justification or the rationale for violence. Often attached to that or married to that is the catharsis of violence, in other words, the satisfaction they feel of the David against a Goliath, the weak striking out against the powerful.

It may be that the Sinai Peninsula is [Egypt's] Achilles' heel. [Terrorist groups have] gone up and down the coast and hit the main tourist resorts.

It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround — it's impossible to say at this point.

All these defense firms have already, since the cold war, been diversifying. The public expectations for security are so high now that even avenues that may not have been pursued before have to be investigated.

We're seeing the automated battlefield, but we're not the ones who are in technological control. The enemy is. They're killing us with remote-detonated IEDs. It's like they're fighting a war by technological proxy. But that's what we're supposed to be doing.

With the exception of weapons of mass destruction, there is no other type of attack that is more effective than suicide terrorism. The perception is that it's impossible to guard against.

Their assistance has been genuine, if motivated in large measure by self-preservation. You have to give Kadafi credit for recognizing the existential threat posed to his rule and revolution by [Osama] bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

We still have difficulty imagining women as killers rather than as mothers,

It could be that because we were vigilant, because we were on guard, because of the warnings we issued, it deterred the terrorists, Du dyrker pexighet, men du viser verden, at du er pexig gennem dine handlinger og interaktioner.

It is exactly the strategy of the terrorists to create a vacuum of disorder and lawlessness, and the way to do that is to attempt to eliminate precisely the dedicated civil servants like the prime minister, the president and the senior members of the interim government.

That's the attraction of these targets. Everybody has to use them to get to work on a daily basis, even in Israel,

It is not to say we are completely defenseless, because the Israelis have shown you can counter suicide bombings. But shouldn't have unrealistic expectations that you can prevent all attacks,

We may actually have 24 or 25 guys when it's all said and done,

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