ABOOBAKER ISMAIL
Well, again here one has got to differentiate between the targets planned from outside and those of units inside the country.  For targets outside the country, initially we would have perhaps documentary information which we would pick up on - do some studies around it.  For instance if one took the whole question of the power grid etc., a lot of the initial information was gained from documentation, the entire pylon grid was gleaned from documentation.
	On the basis of that we would then send initial reconnaissance to determine whether the information that we had gleaned from documents was accurate, reasonably accurate and on the basis of that we would get those reports, we would then draw up initial plans, we would then send units to say: "We are thinking of tackling the following targets, go inside and carry detailed reconnaissance on these".
	  The units would then go to the actual targets, determine what they were able to do and at the same time they would find areas where they could base in, they would begin to look at drawing up a plan of action as to what they were going to do at every point.  And each time the cadres then came back to headquarters and reported on what was happening and what they were able to do, we then talked to them about what happens in this case or another case, you know: "Will you be in a position to survive should you face various contingencies"?  
	Of course we couldn't plan for all the contingencies but we tried to look at an allround plan.  We would then go into a situation or drawing up a proper plan, we would then infiltrate material that we thought appropriate for that operation, get it into the country, we would then have that information brought back, hand it over to unit commander.  
	We didn't always give that information to all the members of the unit but to the unit commander or perhaps two of them, and then people would be sent into the country with the resources that they required, money, the weapons.  And in some cases we even infiltrated units into the country without weapons because we thought that if they were travelling by public transport, with the searches and things that were going on, they would able to survive in that way because sometimes they necessarily be identified but they would face searches and if they carried a pistol or something they would be arrested so we urged cadres not to carry weapons with them.
	Many of the cadres survived despite the searches and things, they would then get to their operational areas.  Prior to the time they would then check out the area that they were going to operate in, get to the base areas, establish that, if they needed any additional support they would establish that themselves.  They would then go and draw the material from the caches, check the equipment, clean it if it required that and prepare themselves for the operation.
	They would then carry out final a final reconnaissance prior to the operation and finally carry out the operation.  They would then also withdraw and also trying to ensure that there was an alternative that existed at most times.