Additionally, to adapt changes in the number of agents and to meet the plug-and-play operational requirements for an ADS, a method is used to update the identities of the agents.
Primarily, their job is to turn over intelligence about terrorists to the Pakistanis, and they do not routinely play an operational role, according to these accounts.
Insofar as the introduction of LNG as a fuel in shipping is concerned, just two types of drivers (shaded in Table 1) would appear to be at play: (1) operational drivers, with the availability of technology and the urge to save costs, and (2) regulatory drivers, in the shape of policy steps by governments and other organizations at national and international level.
In early 2010, officials began hinting that Mr. Abdulmutallab had told interrogators that Mr. Awlaki had played a role in his attempted attack, and in July 2010 the Treasury Department accused Mr. Awlaki of playing an "operational" role for Al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate by "preparing" him for the attack, but offered no evidence.
Officials contend that he now plays an "operational" role with the group calling itself Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
He maintains that he never played any operational role in the violence of the Troubles, and that he confined himself to the leadership of Sinn Fein.
Mr. Awlaki has not been indicted or gone to trial to prove that he played an operational role in terrorist attacks.
However, it is far from clear whether Isis or AQAP played any operational role in the attacks or merely supplied the inspiration and then attempted to stamp their brand on the killings.
American officials also said on Thursday that they now believed that Mr. Khan had played an operational role in gathering information about American targets, even beyond his previously disclosed role as a middleman in helping facilitate Qaeda communications.
He became the first president to authorize the assassination of a United States citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and played an operational role in Al Qaeda, and was killed in an American drone strike in Yemen.
To further minimize external events, PhilHealth played an operational role, both centrally and regionally, to implement the study.
