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Back From the Suburbs to Run a Patch of Somalia

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October 20, 2009

Mr. Aden, 37, is part militia commander, part schoolteacher, part lawmaker, part engineer, part environmentalist, part king — a mind-boggling combination of roles for anyone to play, let alone for a guy who dresses (and talks) like a rapper and recently moved from Minnesota to Somalia in an effort to build a local government.

via The Saturday Profile – Back From the Suburbs to Run a Patch of Somalia – Biography – NYTimes.com.

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