{"id":4813,"date":"2008-11-24T16:07:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T21:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2009-04-16T09:20:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T14:20:51","slug":"paul-salopek-nobody-is-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4813","title":{"rendered":"Paul Salopek: ‘Nobody Is Watching’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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) <\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

America’s hidden war in Somalia
\nBy Paul Salopek, Chicago Tribune<\/em>, 24 November 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

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