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Jane's Foreign Report: Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view
"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."

Jane's Foreign Report: The surgical strike is a myth
"Missile strikes can cause havoc to military installations and concentrations of troops; they are useless against scattered groups of terrorists."

Jane's Terrorism & Security Monitor: Editor's note: sudden, but not unexpected devastation
"Above all, it will remain to be seen if an overwhelming US response to the horrendous acts on 11 September will destroy Bin Ladin or merely sow the seeds for further martyrs to follow him."

Jane's Terrorism & Security Monitor: Suicide bombing: no warning, and no total solution
"Suicide attacks serve other purposes besides inflicting damage. First, they generate the maximum amount of publicity for the cause, and second, they force outside intervention."

Jane's Intelligence Review: Penetrating Al-Qaeda
"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."

Jane's: Why? An attempt to explain the unexplainable
"The origins of last Tuesday's attack on the United States arguably have their roots in the 1970s."

Jane's Defence Weekly: US to put $40 billion 'downpayment' on fighting terrorism
"The administration of President George Bush requested $20 billion, but lawmakers proposed doubling that amount to pay for disaster relief and readying the military for possible action."

Jane's: The battle-scarred Pentagon
"Commentators were saying in the aftermath of the attack that the Pentagon's current location and layout should no longer remain."

Jane's: 'A long, difficult and dangerous campaign'
Nick Cook. "Rumsfeld's comments raise the spectre of a prolonged conflict, but they also point towards a careful double-edged strategy, analysts believe, comprising a comprehensive military build-up backed by a barely perceptible psychological operations offensive, designed to throw the enemy off-guard and to maximise the effects of US and allied military action when it takes place."

Jane's: Manhattan's wounds testimony to a new security environment
"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."