A man sleeps inside the ruins of a Mogadishu building. The depopulated Somali capital is awash in threats, intimidation and political assassinations. (Tribune photo by Kuni Takahashi / October 7, 2007)
America’s hidden war in Somalia
By Paul Salopek, Chicago Tribune, 24 November 2008
BERBERA, Somalia – To glimpse America’s secret war in Africa, you must bang with a rock on the iron gate of the prison in this remote port in northern Somalia. A sleepy guard will yank open a rusty deadbolt. Then, you ask to speak to an inmate named Mohamed Ali Isse.
Isse, 36, is a convicted murderer and jihadist. He is known among his fellow prisoners, with grudging awe, as “The Man with the American Thing in His Leg.”
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