Ten new local tribes were formed to take the place of the four Ionic blood tribes, and, to make faction building more difficult, Attica was divided into three areas the city itself and its suburbs, the coastal area, and the inland area; and townships from each of the three areas were included in each tribe, 10 counties, trittyes, being formed in each area for this purpose.
"Instead of encouraging factions to disarm," Ms. Salih said, the destruction of Nahr al-Bared "has made faction leaders who have arms want to hold onto them even more because they see it as a way to protect their camp".
He won the White House by being all things to all Democrats (and quite a few independents and even Republicans as well), by making each faction see its own values reflected in his candidacy.
All political struggles in Iran are typically waged under the watchful eye of the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ultimately decides the winners and losers, carefully balancing competing interests, to make sure no faction amasses too much power.
It will make the conservative faction more doctrinaire, polarise the court further, and set the stage for a battle royal when a truly liberal justice, like the 85-year-old John Paul Stevens, finally retires.Turn to the rightThe big question for Mr Bush is how far he wants to advance the long-range ambition of social conservatives to change the court fundamentally.
In Iran's complex politics, these struggles are typically waged under the watchful eye of the country's supreme leader, AyatollahAli Khamenei, who ultimately decides the winners and losers, carefully balancing competing interests, to make sure no faction amasses too much power.
But, believe it, there were rivals, their fans making warring factions.
The campaign mode is turn-based, with each turn representing six months starting in summer or winter, allowing the player to attend to all needs of their faction before ending their turn and allowing the artificial intelligence to make all other factions' moves.
But officials in the McGreevey administration say that the merchants in Little India are so politically fractured -- they have three separate business associations -- that it is common for one faction to make unsubstantiated allegations against members of another faction.
Different factions make power grabs even as the tanks roll in.
Bush didn't make the various factions of his government cohere.
