The United States has also identified several new Qaeda compounds in North Waziristan, including one that officials said might be training operatives for strikes against targets beyond Afghanistan.

Senator Bayh has created Camp Bayh, training political operatives and dispatching them to help in the local elections in Iowa this year.

Al-Masri is suspected of helping recruit and train operatives who carried out the 7 July 2005 London Bombings.

However, they also ran a number of camps where they trained operatives in the use of firearms and explosives.

Schellenberg charged Skorzeny with command of the schools organized to train operatives in sabotage, espionage, and paramilitary techniques.

The intelligence service even used Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan to train covert operatives for use in a war of terror against India, the Americans say.

The new political training center's mission was to train political operatives and assist affiliates in training their staff in political work.

Hunters, the ranged faction, are highly trained ex-military operatives who have been through almost every warlike scenario imaginable.

For that matter, Al Qaeda has shown an intriguing desire to train operatives as pilots.

Peppler repeated the assertion that none of the captive's assertions of abuse were credible because al Qaeda trained operatives to lie about abuse.