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The Accidental Warlord

Jeffrey Gettleman has a great piece in the NYT about the strange story of Mohammed Aden, who left Somalia for the United States when he was 22, went to college, and was living with his wife and kids in the suburbs of Minneapolis before he went back home to become the leader of a clan group that’s created an island of relative peace and stability around Adado, Somalia.

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