These tribes are all nuts and it's the same problem in Afghanistan....little power houses.
Tribe wars with tribe. The people of one valley fight with those of the next. To the quarrels of communities are added the combats of individuals. Khan assails khan, each supported by his retainers. Every tribesman has a blood feud against his neighbor. Every mans hand is against the other, and all are against the stranger.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War, by Winston Churchill, © 1898, p. 4
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So before I was nine, I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world. And all of us against the infidel.
" The Haj, by Leon Uris, © 1984