The targets seemed to have been carefully surveyed, the escape routes well planned.
The southern targets seemed like the best bet; the northern storms looked weak and disorganized.
The Mumbai attacks, which included foreigners among its targets, seemed to fit the group's evolving emphasis.
The targets seemed to be forensic research labs with ties to the police and offices associated with traffic rule enforcement.
The Mumbai attacks, which included foreigners among its targets, seemed to fit the group's evolving emphasis and determination to elevate its profile in the global jihadist constellation.
But the unusual decision by Mr. Ridge to identify five individual buildings that he said were live targets seemed to surprise several counterterrorism officials based in Europe.
There was a personal quality to these encounters, and their targets seemed often to be Muslim-Americans within a particular community.
While many of the targets seemed to indicate a focus on tourists and Westerners, most of the victims were Indians, who had packed into the banquet halls and restaurants in the hotels, according to witnesses and officials; even street vendors in Mumbai's main train station were sprayed with bullets.
Since the first C.I.A. drone strike in Pakistan in 2004, only a small number of militants on the C.I.A.'s list of "high-value targets" had been killed by drone strikes, and other potential strikes were scuttled at the last minute because of delays in getting Pakistani approval, or because the targets seemed to have been tipped off and had fled.
"Freezing the targets seemed like an easy place to say: We're still going to be accountable; we still have a pretty high bar; we're still going to follow all the components; but at this point we'll just hold steady while Congress figures out how they're going to reauthorize," Juneau said.
Of note, most of the identified gene targets seemed to fit into the predicted signaling pathways (Figure 3E).
