However, accounts from people who encountered Mateen may undermine that claim, and some evidence suggests there may have been strife within the household when Mateen was a child.
When Mr. Clooney sneaked across the South Sudanese border, he said he found the dead bodies of villagers who just the day before had been strifed by Antonov bombers.
The two years since longtime dictator Moammar Kadafi was overthrown with NATO's help and then killed have been strife-ridden, with many Libyans deeply disappointed by the outcome of a revolution that swiftly devolved into a civil war.
South Sudan has been in strife since December 2013 and the civil war in Yemen has killed more than 3,000 civilians.
But there has been racial strife for decades between residents of Benton Harbor and the authorities in rural Benton Township, and the 95-percent-white beach community next door, St . Joseph
The Catholics have charged the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland with discrimi nating against them in political rights, jobs and housing, and there has been continuing strife between the two religious groups.
One chief obstacle has been labor strife: after a bitter players strike in 1980, the country's summer league handed down an avalanche of lifetime suspensions, even erasing the ringleaders from the record books.
Tom Dundon, the controlling owner of the league and owner of the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes, had reportedly threatened to shut down the league if a deal could not be brokered with the NFLPA and the league over the use of NFL practice-squad players, but according to multiple sources, there has been internal strife, with some questioning Dundon's true intent in sustaining the league.
For Maliki, the result has been decades of strife, plotting, and clandestine war.
"There has been pain and strife, but this is my big chance.
