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- ↑ Profile of Jenkins from Omni Magazine, November 1994
- ↑ Greg Krikorian (2008-01-31). "Confronting terror, calmly". The Los Angeles Times.[ dead link ],
- ↑ Brian Jenkins on IMDB
- ↑ "Statement of Brian Jenkins to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States March 31, 2003".
- ↑ Jenkins, Brian M. International Terrorism: A new kind of warfare'. 1974. p. 4. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/2008/P5261.pdf
- ↑ "Will Terrorists Go Nuclear?".
