As Beals explained it, the Americans decided that waiting for an untainted partner was impractical: "A history of armed covert struggle against Saddam wasn't a disqualifying factor".
More neutral observers agree that while Syria may indeed be fighting a covert struggle to defend its soft underbelly, the Syrians are unlikely to control any but a few of the varied groups seeking to undermine the Lebanese government.
Instead, there was Maliki, a man whose vision of the world had been formed by decades of covert struggle, in the brutal zero-sum world of Middle Eastern revolutionary politics.
Page A4 ONE ACT IN A LONG STRUGGLE If the Obama administration is right that the outlandish contract scheme to murder the Saudi ambassador was the work of Iranian officials, it is only the latest episode in a covert struggle that has played out for years between Iran, the United States and an American ally, Israel.
But if the Obama administration is right that the outlandish contract scheme to murder the ambassador was the work of Iranian officials, it is only the latest episode in a covert struggle that has played out for years involving Iran, the United States and an American ally, Israel.
To investigate this covert struggle, Hay and colleagues strung eight different species of Fijian seaweed across growing corals, including A. millepora colonies.
A series of strokes put Lenin out of action in the two years before his death in January 1924, and a covert succession struggle began with Stalin and Trotsky as first-round contenders.
Western leaders must make it clear, to him and their own people, that they will defend their allies, and the alliance even if the struggle is covert and murky.And it isn't only its allies who appreciate the West's virtues.
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"SELMA" could easily have ended up as a covert biopic a film about one man's struggles disguised as an epic about the tribulations of many.
