Word: masterminding
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...leaders seem to be stepping in to fill the vacuum, and one in particular is emerging as a prime focus of the terrorist hunt. He is Abu Faraj Farj, a Libyan, who, Musharraf has alleged in an interview with TIME, was the "mastermind" behind two plots to assassinate him last December. U.S. officials tell TIME that Farj, 30, is thought to have taken on much of Mohammed's role: devising plans for terrorist attacks inside the U.S. and directing al-Qaeda agents and helpers to that end. "He's big," says a U.S. counterterrorism official. "He's a major player...
...reports based on questioning of two top al-Qaeda operatives. It was a victory for the Germans - except that the testimony seems to exonerate el-Motassadeq. Ramzi Binalshibh, the only surviving member of the core Hamburg cell that carried out the attacks, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected 9/11 mastermind, were questioned independently. Both men claimed el-Motassadeq was not a member of the cell, which included Binalshibh and three hijackers, according to copies of the reports reviewed by Time. But the U.S. agent who wrote the report warns that their statements "may have been meant to influence as well...
...down the ivory tower: all three of his main characters manage to graduate, and all seem poised to follow in the successful footsteps of the author himself, who graduated from New Delhi's IIT in 1995 and now works in Hong Kong for an investment bank. Bhagat was the mastermind of a website promoting the book, offering a monthly contest and his own e-mail address for fan letters. In that sense, even a critical alum like Bhagat makes IIT proud...
...Pakistan. One of America's 22 most-wanted terrorists, the Tanzania-born Ghailani (whose aliases include Ahmed the Tanzanian and Foopie) evaded capture for almost six years and is believed to be the most senior al-Qaeda official caught in Pakistan since the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, last year...
...micromanager who wanted to hit the White House and personally chose all of the "muscle" hijackers. There are telling details about the lives and passions of the hijackers. For example, the 9/11 scheme nearly foundered several times over the terrorists' personal tribulations. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the plot's mastermind, became enraged when one hijacker-in-waiting flew home to Yemen after the birth of a child. Mohammed wanted him dropped from the operation, but bin Laden refused. When the wayward Nawaq Alhazmi grew lonely waiting for orders in San Diego, Mohammed allowed him to search for a wife...