Ten-cell leaders are the first level of governmental leadership groups, which coalesce to form hierarchical levels of leadership and representation within the government: 10 cells answer to wards, which form districts, ultimately organised into regions of the country.
A more detailed picture of the interactions between the Hamburg cell and Qaeda leadership from recent evidence also suggests that early decisions in planning the attacks may have occurred here.
Many writers describe al-Qaeda as a decentralized network, but emphasize its complex logistical chain, communications systems, and affiliate groups -- all of which take strategic and ideological direction from a leadership cell.
The alternative to reinforcement is just to fight a counter-terrorist campaign against Taliban and al-Qaida training camps, and with targeted attacks by drones and special forces against leadership cells.
Musharraf offered a detailed analysis of the security situation along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan and his strategy to win the support of local tribes through economic and social development, while eliminating al Qaeda and Taliban leadership cells through security operations.
Although small disorganised cells of Central Leadership of Home Resistance (Ústřední vedení odboje domácího, ÚVOD) survived, only the communist resistance was able to function in a coordinated manner (although it also suffered arrests).
In Congressional testimony in early 2007, Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, described the group as "an Al Qaeda cell, directed by Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan, that planned to bomb nearly a dozen U.S. airliners bound for the U.S. in midair".
And it describes poor leadership, overcrowded cells and poor medical care for Iraqi prisoners.
Back home, he finds his leadership of the cell challenged by Barry, whose big idea now is to radicalise Muslim moderates, because "Islam is crackin' up, bro'".
The arrests of suspected members of a terrorist cell believed to have Qaeda leadership appeared to confirm some of those fears.
