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• n  someone who creates new things
• n  someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
• v  plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
  he masterminded the robbery

• PTI investigates the terrorist mastermind Hambali By SIMON ELEGANT Sungei Manggis.
• Suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden AFP Locations of the August, 1998, missile strikes: PTI Daily The Many Portraits of Osama .
• Special forces raided a hide-out Thursday and killed militant mastermind Noordin Muhammed Top, striking at the heart of the terrorist network behind a deadly campaign of suicide .

• originator
• conceiver
• genius
• brain
• brainiac
• Einstein
• engineer
• direct
• organize
• organise
• orchestrate

News & Articles

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• Memphis man gets 27 years in prison for heroin trafficking
  The admitted mastermind of a heroin-trafficking ring in the Hyde Park area of North Memphis has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison.
  June 20, 2013 - Memphis Commercial Appeal
• Alleged 9/11 mastermind appears in court
  FORT MEADE, Md. — Self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-defendants returned to a Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, courtroom Monday for a week of pretrial arguments in the case.
  June 18, 2013 - New York Daily News
• Rick Ross Talks Next Album “Mastermind,” Due Out Later This Year
  Rick Ross is in the studio working on his sixth studio album, Mastermind , and GOT caught up with him at the Samsung Hope For Children Gala in New York City last Tuesday night (Jun 11) to get the scoop on it. More »
  June 18, 2013 - Gossip on This!

Quotes

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• Vice President Dick Cheney in UPI.com
  He seems to think if he has a low-key response to an attempt to blow up an airliner and kill hundreds of people, we won't be at war,Cheney said. "He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of 9/11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial...
• Robert Byrd in Forbes
  With security gains being described as fragile, "it does not seem prudent to remove the mastermind behind the fragile successes that have been thus far achieved," said Byrd, DW.Va.
• Lindsey Graham in Newsday
  What happened yesterday was unprecedented,Graham said. "Americans are going to be shocked to find that that mastermind of 9-11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, now has the same legal standing as an American citizen."