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The first day in court, the former minister of information, Ali Fallahian, whom Baghi and Ganji had accused of being a mastermind of the serial killings, sat in the gallery smiling at Baghi.

"On the one hand, the judges acquit him on charges of being a mastermind of terrorist acts, but on the other hand, they say that he was involved in treason," said Adnan Buyung Nasution, a member of Mr. Bashir's legal team.

A Milan court struck down an attempt by lawyers representing a man suspected of being a mastermind of the March 11 train bombings in Madrid to suppress as evidence monitored conversations in which he boasted about planning the attacks, judicial officials said.

He was a mastermind of the Okinawa invasion.

"Theresa is a mastermind of the place," Kushner said.

Of course, it is inconceivable that Tourre acted alone, or even that he was a mastermind of the deal.

Roberti's office said Edoardo Contini, who has been jailed since 2007 after years as a fugitive, was a mastermind of the business network for money laundering.

Mr. Clyburn went on to suggest that Mr. Clinton, the leading Democratic political strategist of his generation, has been a mastermind of a strategy bent on marginalizing Mr. Obama.

The North's KCNA news agency said Merrill E. Newman, a former special forces officer, was a mastermind of clandestine operations and had confessed to being "guilty of a long list of indelible crimes against DPRK government and Korean people".

The court filings do raise the possibility of how much else the authorities may not yet know, including whether Mr. Zazi was a mastermind of the plot or simply a willing participant acting under the direction of others.

The police seized a 17-year-old Lebanese native who hijacked a bus and held several people hostage for seven hours, demanding the release of four arrested members of Al Qaeda, including one said to be a mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.