There was a level of coordination that was slightly unusual".
"It's the coordination that is ailing," he said.
The discovery underscored the sophistication and coordination that have increasingly characterized the attacks that have convulsed the country.
Rescuing even one major bank operating across borders would require a political will and coordination that might be lacking.
I just don't think they fully appreciate the coordination that is needed to solve it," the financial markets expert said.
"They certainly weren't at first," he said, "and we're still evaluating that to see if there is any kind of coordination that goes beyond just local coordination, that it might be broader than that".
"It's hard to imagine the kind of work and preparation and coordination that went into something like this".
"The goal is to continue the obviously deep coordination that already exists between the United States and Iraq.
Nor is there a system of multilateral surveillance and coordination that can insist on greater coherence among monetary, fiscal and exchange-rate policies, particularly of the richest countries.
The outbreak shows that the response demands a level of coordination that can be effectively performed only where there are competent domestic institutions.
Nor do administration officials say whether they know of any coordination that might have occurred between those attacks and other attacks on Israeli citizens the same day.
