But Pakistani officials say General Musharraf would like to encourage a split in the Taliban, so that if Mullah Omar is killed, there will be a faction that could be included in a coalition government.
As NPR's Ron Elving wrote about a recent NPR poll that held a dire prediction for the Democrats in November: "The House Democratic majority is, as always, a struggle between the 'sitting pretty' faction that's safe (this year as always) and the more fragile 'scaredy cat' faction that could be carried off by even the gentlest of anti-incumbent breezes".
But there's one local faction that could be a problem.
Pressed by Yasir Arafat, 13 Palestinian factions, including Hamas, drafted a unity platform that could be interpreted to signal an end to attacks on civilians within Israel.
A stratified random sample of 740 Canadian chiropractors was surveyed to determine faction membership and how professional stratification could be related to views that could be considered unorthodox to current evidence-based care and guidelines.
There is an insurgent anti-Brexit faction that could change this.
Eventually, he was deposed and hanged by the faction that could no longer bear his apocalyptic tirades against corruption.
So even if the Taliban are willing to diverge from Pakistan, their handlers in the Pakistani intelligence service could spoil any deal by shifting resources to another Islamist faction that could continue the war against Kabul.
Since Mr. Mashaei, like Mr. Ahmadinejad, is increasingly out of favor with the unelected clerics who hold ultimate power in Iran, and was barred from running in the election, the suggestion that the man who interrupted the news conference was simply a troublemaker associated with that political faction could be an attempt to discredit him and explain away the disruption.
Another faction, however, argued that London could be captured with the army as it was, and that Gloucester would serve as a distraction from the main goal of the campaign.
