Greg Perrin, a vice president of Opsail Inc., the nonprofit organization sponsoring Operation Sail 2000, said that Glen Cove officials had asked to host some Opsail ships but he didn't want to get involved because Glen Cove was paying ships to visit.
Even before the loss of its Afghan base, al-Qaeda was not an organisation in a conventional sense: Mr bin Laden operated more like a venture capitalist than a CEO, sponsoring operations with varying degrees of control.
In an interview with an intelligence Web site, Lerenseignement.com, Mr. Lorho said he assumed "full responsibility" for hacking into the Greenpeace computer, but he added that "I would like to see E.D.F., which sponsored the operation, take responsibility for its part".
Because of the efforts of Dr. Scott and others, the federal government now spends about $45 million a year on sickle cell disease and sponsors the operation of 10 comprehensive treatment and research centers nationwide, said Dr. Duane R. Bonds, leader of the Sickle Cell Disease Scientific Research Group at the federal health institutes.
The new teams in the Roshan football league - named after the country's leading telecommunications company, which is jointly sponsoring the operation - have the support of the international governing body of football, Fifa, and the Asian Football Federation.
He resigned from the presidency in 1992 following criticism of his involvement in a 1960s clandestine operation, sponsored by NATO, to prepare guerrilla fighters in the event of an invasion by Warsaw Pact countries.
In the summer of 1975, with the cold war raging and the memory of Saigon's fall terribly fresh, the United States sponsored a covert operation to prevent another Communist takeover, this time across the world, in Angola.
And in what has become something of a winter ritual here, the city has sponsored an annual "Operation Pothole" weekend each year, bringing out extra street repair crews as they fill tens of thousands of potholes — and pose for the news media cameras.
Staff at the BBC's Persian service in London are among dozens of Iranian journalists who have been subjected to what appears to be an operation sponsored by the authorities and aimed at discrediting reporters in the eyes of the public in Iran.
The corporation believes this is part of what appears to be an operation sponsored by the authorities and aimed at discrediting reporters in the eyes of the public in Iran.
Further exacerbating matters, President Mubarak, in December 1992, insisted Cairo would make "no concessions" over Halayeb and accused the Sudanese junta of sponsoring "terrorist operations" in North Africa in conjunction with Iran -- a charge denied by the Khartoum government.
