Mr. Maskhadov had appointed him the head of the Chechen military committee in August, apparently in an effort to unify factions fighting the Russians.
The Islamists emerged several years ago as a network of clan-based courts that unified warring factions.
The Marlowe unified the factions on its city council; Firstsite became an instrument of war between Tories and Liberal Democrats.
Goodluck Jonathan, who had lost his parliamentary majority briefly in 2013, adroitly unified rival factions within the ruling People's Democratic Party PDPP) to obtain its nomination on October 23 as flag bearer for a second full term as president.
Reportedly from the Panjwai district of Kandahar, Haibatullah is part of the Noorzai tribe and comes from the Taliban's spiritual heartland, which gives him clout over southern commanders and could potentially help him unify discontented factions.
Ethnic Kurds opened a regional parliament meeting in northern Iraq today, hoping to unify rival factions whose infighting has repeatedly foiled Kurdish attempts to consolidate power over their traditional homeland.
For months, the administration has been increasing its involvement with the rebels — organizing a 130-nation pressure group, working to unify opposition factions, helping them plan a political transition, providing intelligence and medical aid and vetting which groups are extremists and which should get arms.
The Whigs could not unify their factions as the Democrats had, and the convention adopted a platform almost indistinguishable from that of the Democrats, including support of the Compromise of 1850.
For many Palestinians, a main priority now is to unify rival factions within their movement and to try to move forward with a single voice in any future talks over final status issues.
The core strategy from now on should be to retain the shell of the Assad regime, staff a new government with both existing government officers as well as Syrian opposition members, unify the factions on the ground to attack ISIS, and at a later date, draft an inclusive, democratic constitution.
The Republicans' opposition to Britain unified the faction through the 1790s and inspired them to fight against the Federalist-sponsored Jay Treaty (1794) and the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798).
