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Jane's: Inside Al-Qaeda: a window into the world of militant Islam and the Afghani alumni - http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/misc/janes010928_1_n.shtml
Richard Engel, Cairo and Amman. "While there were many heroes and martyrs in the Afghan war, which was supported by US intelligence as part of its battle against communism, many of the mujahideen rallied around three main people: charismatic Saudi financier Osama bin Laden, blind cleric Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and intelligent technocrat Dr Ayman al-Zawahari." |
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Jane's Intelligence Review: Suicide terrorism: a global threat - http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/usscole/jir001020_1_n.shtml
The threat, characteristics, motivation, modus operandi, likely developments, state responses and the growing threat. |
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Jane's Intelligence Review: 'Blowback' - http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jir/jir010726_1_n.shtml
"The genesis, operational methods and organisational structure of the Bin Laden network: Al-Qaeda." |
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Jane's Foreign Report: Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view - http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/fr/fr010919_1_n.shtml
"Israel's military intelligence service, Aman, suspects that Iraq is the state that sponsored the suicide attacks on the New York Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington. Directing the mission, Aman officers believe, were two of the world's foremost terrorist masterminds: the Lebanese Imad Mughniyeh, head of the special overseas operations for Hizbullah, and the Egyptian Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri, senior member of Al-Qaeda and possible successor of the ailing Osama Bin Laden." |
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Jane's: Why? An attempt to explain the unexplainable - http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jdw/jdw010914_1_n.shtml
"The origins of last Tuesday's attack on the United States arguably have their roots in the 1970s." |
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Jane's Intelligence Digest: Overt assistance from Pakistan may bring dire consequences - http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jid/jid010920_1_n.shtml
"As the United States plans its military response to last week's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the role of Pakistan - and the position of the country's unelected military leader, General Pervez Musharraf - have become key questions." |
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Jane's Intelligence Digest: Why was Russia's intelligence on Al-Qaeda ignored? - http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jid/jidpromo011005.shtml
"Back in March Moscow's Permanent Mission at the UN submitted to the UN Security Council an unprecedentedly detailed report on Al-Qaeda's terrorist infrastructure in Afghanistan, but the US government opted not to act." Special issue available for purchase online. |
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Jane's World Insurgency & Terrorism: United Jihad Council Groups - http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jwit/jwit010920_1_n.shtml
"Includes: Harakat-ul Mujahideen (HuM); Jaish-e Mohammad (JeM); Lashkar-e Tayyiba (LeT); Hizb-ul Mujahideen (HM); Al Badr. In the past, Harakat ul-Ansar (HUA) acted as an umbrella organisation, although after the formation of JeM an estimated three quarters of HUA members defected to the new group." |
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Jane's: Kashmir insurgency is being 'Talibanised' - http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/misc/janes011005_1_n.shtml
Rahul Bedi in New Delhi. The connection between Pakistan and the Kashmir militants. |
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Jane's Intelligence Review: Penetrating Al-Qaeda - http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jir/jir010914_1_n.shtml
"Al-Qaeda's operations are not carried out by one group led by one person, but are rather conducted by different groups with support and guidance from Al-Qaeda." |
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Jane's Intelligence Digest: Where does US intelligence go from here - and were they really to blame? - http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jid/jid270901_1_n.shtml
"As one very well-informed source close to US intelligence told JID, 'The main problem is not a lack of information - that comes in all the time - but that we simply don't have sufficient skilled operatives capable of analysing the intelligence we receive in a timely manner and identifying those who pose a real risk to our interests.'" |
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Jane's Foreign Report: The surgical strike is a myth - http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/fr/fr010918_1_n.shtml
"Missile strikes can cause havoc to military installations and concentrations of troops; they are useless against scattered groups of terrorists." |
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Jane's: The battle-scarred Pentagon - http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/misc/janes010913_1_n.shtml
"Commentators were saying in the aftermath of the attack that the Pentagon's current location and layout should no longer remain." |
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Jane's: Manhattan's wounds testimony to a new security environment - http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/misc/janes010912_2_n.shtml
"NATO for the first time invoked its Article Five mutual defence provision on Wednesday under which the attack was to be considered an attack against the entire 19-member alliance." |
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Jane's: A prime suspect - http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/misc/janes010911_2_n.shtml
"An initial prime suspect behind the terrorist onslaught on the US, the most devastating such attack the world has ever seen, is Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind who resides in Afghanistan." |