But the region does seem a tempting target for outside agitators, with a restive population of unemployed young men.

What are you, some kind of outside agitator?

The imam said the firing was not from the demonstrators, but from outside agitators.

Town officials said, however, that there was little conclusive proof of any role by outside agitators.

"Are you suggesting that this disturbance was instigated by outside agitators?"

Much of the violence was incited by outside agitators, not striking print workers, the police officials asserted.

Quite a few Provincetown residents attributed the tone of this year's parade and the sign to "outside agitators."

Quincy Farms officials also say the labor dispute is the work of "a few outside agitators."

They are not branches of Chicago gangs set up by "outside agitators" from the big city.

A white resident of the neighborhood says many people do not like the boycott, but have been scared off by "outside agitators."