The operation, swift and well-planned as it was, had been seen by someone else.

Mortar shell blasts and machinegun fire could be heard in what appeared to be a well-planned operation.

"This was obviously a well-planned operation," Sergeant Edwards said.

With the precision of a well-planned operation, attackers struck at three hotels in Amman.

But it does suggest an elaborate and well-planned operation.

But it does, as you say, suggest a well-planned operation with accomplices in this country.

"I congratulate my colleague on his successful and well-planned operations," he says.

On 4 June, in a well-planned and executed operation, her group captured intact U-505.

All fifty of the armed intruders were military officers, engaged in a well-planned and precisely timed operation.

Can't see any reason for having a fleet cover a one-man operation, especially as well-planned a one as this was.