There has been much speculation that the terror was fomented by obscure forces seeking to create a climate so frightening that such a coup would be welcome.
The extremist operations carried out by networks "cut off from any social movement and manipulated by obscure forces, had an effect that was the exact reverse of the one their authors probably hoped for," he writes.
In my mind, becoming more aware of the obscure forces that guide, define, and influence the ways in which we shape our world is not about avoiding the perils of the future, but about helping to ensure that we are able to achieve our full potential.
"It hints at dark forces, at the obscure, unfathomable depths of human motivation".
If the MEK is such an obscure, irrelevant force, why are the mullahs are so concerned that for years they have kept the issue of shackling the leading resistance force a major part of their negotiations with the international community?
But the two bombs discovered Thursday were attributed to obscure leftist forces.
PERHAPS no development has done more to obscure the forces behind the foreclosure epidemic than the rise of the MERS, the private registry that has all but replaced public land ownership records.
The justification of principles is said rather to reside in the reasons for the parties' agreement; the social contract itself does not add to but only obscures the force of these reasons.
The pretense that sound scientific theories are the products of purely external guidance obscures the forces shaping these choices and absolves scientists from responsibility for defending them.
He should not let his efforts to rebuild the armed forces obscure the larger goal of giving Iraqis a stake in their government.
The defining victory of his career, against Wladimir Klitschko, should have been feted for years, instead his boxing triumph was obscured by the force of a feckless tongue.
