Sentence examples for covert army from inspiring English sources

In the early nineteen-eighties, a covert Army unit was set up and authorized to operate overseas with minimal oversight.

In the war against terrorism, many of the soldiers are actually under the command of George Tenet, a kind of covert army.

perpetrators of some attacks have fled to Waziristan, where they find shelter among jihadi groups that allegedly enjoy covert army support.

It reports that the C.I.A. has a 3,000-man "covert army" in Afghanistan called the Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams, or C.T.P.T., mostly Afghans who capture and kill Taliban fighters and seek support in tribal areas.

Past news accounts have reported that the C.I.A. has a number of militias, including one trained on one of its compounds, but not the size of the covert army.

For many years I was a member of a covert army squad, the Force Research Unit, at the centre of many of the allegations investigated by Sir John Stevens, the Metropolitan police commissioner.

Over the years he has shared similar reports of covert armies preparing to subjugate the American people.

Aged 25 and 17, they were members of D Company of the Belfast IRA's 2nd Battalion – the organisation's most active unit in the city, nicknamed "the Dogs" – and were killed after confessing to collaborating with the Military Reaction Force (MRF), a covert British army unit.

Conservative opposition to it was reinforced on this occasion by a popular Protestant movement in Ulster, and the new Conservative leader, Andrew Bonar Law, who had replaced Balfour in 1911, gave his covert support to army mutineers in Ulster.

The Guinean army began covert support for the rebels, dribs and drabs of ammunition here, a few mortars there.

In 1985, Nelson offered himself as an informant to the Force Research Unit (FRU), a covert unit within the army's intelligence corps that recruited and ran agents in Northern Ireland.