"We have made the cars behave," said Stanton Eckstut, who also was a key planner of Battery Park City.

During his assignment with First Army, Kean was one of the key planners of the D-Day invasion of Normandy.

In their trials, both claimed Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a key planner of the attacks, would have given statements indicating their innocence.

Before appointment, Lewis was a key planner of the new college's curriculum, and supervised the hiring of core faculty.

One of the key planners for several of the attacks was Mahmoud Tawalbe, who worked in a record store while also heading the local PIJ cell.

Earlier this year, David Headley, the Pakistani-American who testified in Chicago about the Mumbai attack, named Kashmiri as a key terrorist planner.

Grigory A. Yavlinsky, the Soviet Union's key economic planner, said there had been good progress toward providing what could amount to substantial financial assistance to his country.

American officials have said that he was a key planner of the Sept. 11 attacks.

"As far as strategy and maintenance of what we have, Bob will be the key planner in this."

There is little mystery as to who some of the key planners and perpetrators are, or where they live.