This may suggest that an inter-tribal war in the post-Gaddafi era is highly likely.
Unless the politicians can help the poor, tribal war may one day be followed by class war.
This should help to transform the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians from a tribal war over the land they cohabit into a conflict between sovereign states.
Its northern and western neighbours Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Somalia suffer in various degrees from war, tribal conflict, government repression, separatism and all that follows.
Now we have a family feud, a gang war or tribal border skirmish that will continue in escalating cycles of violence intogenerations not yet born.
Now we have a family feud, a gang war or tribal border skirmish that will continue in escalating cycles of violence into generations not yet born.
But the researchers' routine is shattered when a turf war erupts between tribal drug smugglers and military forces sent by the government to secure the oil-rich area for investment.
Since relations with Pakistan have reached a new ebb (because Obama took the decidedly non-appeasing step of massively escalating the US drone war in the Pakistani tribal areas) the NDN is, for the moment, the only way of getting sufficient supplies to the tens of thousands of American and NATO troops stationed in that country.
Goaded (perhaps unwisely) by America, it has sent 80, 000 troops into its tribal border area, thereby starting a war with tribesmen in which 800 soldiers have died.
The bomber, who was apparently sent by the Taliban, slipped into this crowd reportedly in search of Abdul Hakim Jan, a powerful tribal elder and former Kandahar police chief at war with the militant group.
The position of women deteriorated after the 1991 Gulf war, as Saddam embraced Islamist and tribal groups to boost himself politically, and it seems to have fallen further as a result of the Western invasion.
Some southerners now claim that Mr Saleh, and his tribal backers, are not part of the solution in the war on terror, but part of the problem.
Some of these groups have ties to radical tribal leaders and intelligence officials who are veterans not only of the war against the Russians in Afghanistan but who also took part in what they deemed to be a jihad against the supposedly godless socialist south in the war for unity in 1994, which the north in effect won.
There's war still, poverty, unemployment and the never-ending struggle for power in this tribal society.
It lets America drive three-quarters of its war supplies from Karachi, and goes along with immensely unpopular drone strikes against extremists in its own tribal areas.
Accusations that tribal leaders engage in nepotism fall on deaf ears, as the Indians lived for centuries by sharing the spoils of war or hunting with family members.
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