Sentence examples for Operational planners from inspiring English sources

If people are drawn to him, he can pass them along to trainers and operational planners.

The switch was due largely to the "removal of operational planners" through drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas and Yemen, a former senior intelligence official said.

The officials said that a charismatic pair of Libyan men, Atiya Abd al-Rahman and Abu Yahya al-Libi, who escaped from the prison at Bagram in Afghanistan in 2005, are now believed to be Qaeda's senior operational planners.

He also told Brooklyn federal prosecutors and F.B.I. agents about discussions he had with operational planners from Al Qaeda about a plot to blow up a Long Island Rail Road train inside Pennsylvania Station, according to several law enforcement officials.

A senior American official in Washington said that his killing removed one of the group's "most experienced operational planners in east Africa and has almost certainly set back operations".

According to the Times, A senior administration official in Washington said the killing of Mr. Awlaki was important because he had become Al Qaeda's greatest English-language propagandist and one of its top operational planners.

An American official said that the drone strike killed Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, a Libyan who in the last year had taken over as Al Qaeda's top operational planner.

Mr. Clapper said that the death last September of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born cleric who was a top propagandist and operational planner for the Yemen affiliate, "probably reduces, at least temporarily, A.Q.A.P.'s ability to plan transnational attacks".

The key operational planner of the September 11 attacks was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (often referred to simply as "KSM" in the later 9/11 Commission Report and in the media), who had spent his youth in Kuwait.

United States intelligence officials said today that Mr. Mohammed seemed to have been a crucial operational planner for Sept. 11, perhaps just below Mr. bin Laden and his three top lieutenants.

Mr. Mohammed, who was on the F.B.I.'s most-wanted terror list and is believed to have been the operational planner of the Sept. 11 attacks, was quickly handed over to the Americans for questioning at an undisclosed foreign location.