Another 8,000 men have received instructions on logistics, like moving money, planning sophisticated attacks, blending into Western cities and communicating secretly, officials said.
The CIA's offensive in the Pakistan tribal region had driven Osama bin Laden and his colleagues into hiding – where they have presumably been since 2001 – leaving al-Qa'ida "rudderless and incapable of planning sophisticated operations".
Aggressive attacks against al-Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal region have driven Osama bin Laden and his top deputies deeper into hiding and disrupted their ability to plan sophisticated operations, CIA Director Leon Panetta said Wednesday.
He described the tunnel as so carefully planned and sophisticated that it appeared that engineers must have been involved, not merely men with shovels.
We hypothesised that more accurate preoperative planning, sophisticated technical capabilities, and evolution of surgeon experience will result in more consistent use of non-extensile single surgical approaches.
Along with police training facilities here supported by the European Union, they represent a new phase in the security plan: sophisticated training under Palestinian command has begun in Palestinian territory.
The Aztecs and their world of rational urban planning, sophisticated sanitation, running water, daily baths, dominant temples and insatiable human sacrifice seemed set to last forever.
In its meticulous planning, sophisticated co-ordination and military precision, as well as its choice of targets, the assault on Mumbai bore no trace of what its promoters tried to suggest it was -- a spontaneous eruption by angry young Indian Muslims.
The hallmark of the sophisticated approach, by contrast, is its emphasis on backwards planning: the sophisticated chooser does not assume that all paths through the decision tree, or in other words, all possible combinations of choices at the various choice nodes, will be possible.
Disinformation is often the product of a carefully planned and technically sophisticated deceit process.
To do that, the mirrormakers planned to combine sophisticated computer modeling with a laborious, iterative process of grinding, cooling, measuring, warming, regrinding, cooling again, and so on.
