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WEST COVINA - Hussein Mohamed Aidid's path from ordinary Covina High School student to a ministerial position in Somalia's fragile transitional government was an odd and tortuous one.
Aidid has been in and out of the international spotlight since 1996, when he took over his infamous warlord father's forces in the long-embattled Somali capital, Mogadishu. In recent days he has resurfaced in news reports as internal affairs minister for the Transitional Somali Government (TSG), which was installed to head the war-ravaged country after a New Year's offensive led by Ethiopian troops.See the full content of this document
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From Clerk to Somali Warlord
His current job of trying to disarm the gun-infested capital after months of rule by the fundamentalist Islamic Courts Union is a far cry from his days plotting roads and updating water records at...
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