However — as with everything having to do with Pakistan, terrorism and espionage — it remained unclear how or whether the militants learned of the American intelligence, which came with a request from Washington for local security forces to raid the explosives laboratories.
Even Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, learned not to rely on attacks that blatantly conflict with international standards of behavior by causing large-scale civilian casualties.
College students across America were organized and militant, having learned their lessons from the Civil Rights movement.
But after their elderly parents were slaughtered in a village massacre by Islamist militants, Rachel learned of his father's SS past.
One of Mr. Rushdi's companions, Amjad Albatta, 30, said the Palestinian militants had learned to wait the Israelis out, rather than to confront their overwhelming forces.
Since 2004, when the insurgency flared up after a period of relative dormancy, militants have learned to kill with more precision, often attacking villagers with ambushes, Ms. Supaporn said.
At one eight-day "crash course" in March, the militant said he learned how to mix explosive chemicals and how to load a car with explosives that would be used in suicide bombings.
"From March to May 2013 former Ansaru, Boko Haram and other militants who fought with or learned from militants in Mali launched attacks along (Nigeria's) north-eastern Borno border with Niger and Cameroon," says Mr Zenn.
Asked why they were also planting mines on either side of the road, a local militant leader said: "We learned a lesson from Tikrit, where our brothers only planted bombs on key roads.
U2 were learning to infuse their music with a sensibility that had been unreachable in their religious lives — a kind of militant surrendering.
