It said the men were believed to be associated with a senior "facilitator" for Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia who helped foreign fighters in Iraq, and it accused the insurgents of endangering civilians by operating in their midst.
Peter Cook, the Pentagon's press secretary, described Chouchane as an Isis "senior facilitator" who aided the movement of foreign fighters between his home country of Tunisia, the targeted training camp in Libya and onward to other countries.
Senior Facilitator, The OpEd Project.
Teresa Puente is an associate professor of journalism at Columbia College Chicago and a senior facilitator with The OpEd Project.
In response to participants' interest in gaining mentorship competencies, CCGHR implemented a facilitators-in-training (FIT) initiative in 2007 where, each year, two alumni became facilitators for new participants in a subsequent SI, with mentoring by a more senior facilitator.
These reports were also contributed to and discussed with the facilitation team (facilitators, supervisors, and senior facilitation manager) who also added their reflections and observations.
In addition, weekly meetings amongst facilitators, the senior trainer and the research team, provided opportunities for the senior trainer to role-model 'good' facilitation during debrief sessions, through probing facilitators to think through the problems they faced and discuss them as a group.
In the case of al-Salami, the Pentagon alleged that he was "a mid- to high-level al-Qaeda operative who had key ties to principal facilitators and senior members of the group".
In the case of al-Salami, who was captured in a guest house in Pakistan with over a dozen other prisoners, most of whom have persistently claimed that they were students, the Pentagon alleged that he was "a mid- to high-level al-Qaeda operative who had key ties to principal facilitators and senior members of the group".
