Word: masterminded
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...Warne, besides a collegiate career at Hofstra that included two All-America East Conference nominations, the defensive mastermind assisted at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he helped the Retrievers to a NCAA quarterfinal berth last season...
...with Rove’s assistant. “With his resignation being pretty recent, this is one of the first times that he was free,” Weatherl said. A longtime Republican political strategist and advisor to President George W. Bush, Rove is widely credited as the mastermind behind the Republican presidential campaign victories in 2000 and 2004. He served in various positions in the Bush administration from January 2001 until his resignation last August. “When it comes to someone like Karl Rove, he’s had an impact on the political climate...
Imad Mughniyah, who was assassinated Tuesday in Syria, was a man of the Middle East's shadows. He was a terrorist mastermind behind political causes. For him, though, it was as much about the fight as the cause. He shunned the light. He never gave public speeches or lectures. He is not known to have given any press interviews, not even to sympathetic or politically aligned journalists. Western reporters who sought the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hizballah's help to arrange a rendezvous were politely but sternly advised not to go there...
Mughniyah also was the mastermind of several other savage hijackings and the taking of Western hostages, including a former colleague, CIA station chief Bill Buckley. All of these attacks were carried out at the behest of Iran...
Majid Khan, 27, a former suburban-Baltimore high school student, was seized by authorities in Pakistan. He then spent over three years in a secret overseas CIA "black site" before being transferred to Guantnamo. Also transferred was reputed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who allegedly ordered Khan to research attacks on American reservoirs and gas stations...