Now we have documentary evidence of Ansar's current operation: employing suicide bombers to foment a civil war in Iraq that would reinstate safe haven for terrorists.
Now, thanks to Congress, we just got a rare peek behind the curtain of how Facebook's ad operations were manipulated by a foreign power to foment outrage and division in American society.
The operation, code-named TP-Ajax, was the blueprint for a succession of C.I.A. plots to foment coups and destabilize governments during the cold war -- including the agency's successful coup in Guatemala in 1954 and the disastrous Cuban intervention known as the Bay of Pigs in 1961.
Administration officials deny trying to foment trouble.
It was, he replied, to foment doubt.
Together they vowed to foment a coup.
But they wanted to foment a revolution.
But opportunistic politicians are continuing to foment this noxious anger.
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Mr Castro tried to foment or aid armed uprisings.
