Later, he said obliquely, "there were transgressive elements involved".
There are many, many, many different elements involved.
But there's another element involved.
There is also a computational element involved.
The author frames the bombing and trial as the premier tectonic event between the greedy forces of American capitalism - Otis, Chandler, Burns - and terrorist elements in the emerging labor movement involving Debs, Gompers, and Darrow.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Abdul Karim al-Iryani told The Associated Press that the ship bombing had reached far beyond Yemen, involving what he called "international terrorist elements".
"This is a serious escalation from these terrorist elements".
General Menshawi said that by midafternoon, 57 "terrorist elements" had been arrested.
"We support cleaning up terrorist elements, but would never accept an attack on our innocent people".
We are wary of terrorist elements within the opposition who would love to get their hands on Syria's weapons.
