The former Iraqi generals were quoted as saying that they thought Mr. Hussein was relying on hard-core loyalists to spread disorder under American rule.
The incoherence of the numerous players in Libyan politics has spread disorder, but their very diversity means that so far nobody has been strong enough to risk a fight to the finish.
"Those who make war against Allah and his apostle and spread disorder in the land shall be put to death or crucified or have their hands and feet cut off on alternative sides or be banished from the land," he intoned.
He tailed off in the second half, but he has the speed and directness to spread disorder to even the most well-organised defence.
As the news of the killings spread, disorder erupted across the city.
As the news spread, disorder and violence erupted throughout the capital.
They include both humans who spread disorder and cosmic powers like Apep, the embodiment of chaos, whom Ra and the gods who accompany him in his barque are said to combat every night.
The spreading disorder in Japan's schools may pale compared with the woes of underprivileged schools in American cities.
But before this new order appears, the world may be faced with spreading disorder, if not outright chaos.
Today it is best known as the epicenter of chaos in West Africa, a breeding ground for drugged-out mercenaries in wigs who range the region spreading disorder.
