Sentence examples for covert force from inspiring English sources

Regarding missiles, Iraq maintains a covert force of several dozen Scud missiles, the C.I.A. said.

Iraq has a small covert force of Al Hussein Scuds, according to American and British intelligence.

The Pentagon had announced that a covert force was hunting Saddam Hussein.

The C.I.A. resisted a proposal to send a covert force into Iraqi Kurdistan to destroy the secret chemical weapons lab.

Young soldiers permitted to volunteer for this most covert force were rogues and geniuses; they were the sons of new immigrants who spoke fluent Arabic.

Friends said a recruiter had lured him into a covert force of Somali refugees that the Kenyan government is training to help Somalia's internationally backed transitional government fight the extremist Islamist group Al-Shabaab.

Even if Israel seizes 100 more ships on their way to Gaza, even if Israel sends in troops to occupy the Gaza Strip 100 more times, no matter how often Israel deploys its military, police and covert power, force cannot solve the problem that we are not alone in this land, and the Palestinians are not alone in this land.

He and John Voket hoped to find a psychologist who could explain to readers why people insisted that covert forces were at work in the massacre.

Of course, it's supposed to be different this time: "surgical strikes" and covert forces in support of Iraqi and Kurdish troops instead of invasion and occupation.

The A.P., in a report today, called aspects of our involvement an "open secret": Covert forces, private contractors and U.S. intelligence assets were thrown into the fight in an undercover campaign operating separately from the NATO command structure.

An American official in Washington, who said he was not authorized to speak publicly, predicted that American covert forces would get involved if the offensive, which could begin in a few weeks, dislodged Qaeda terrorists.