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Trump must hunt ISIS’s Somali ghost caliph before Africa’s jihad consolidates

Washington Examiner
Trump must hunt ISIS’s Somali ghost caliph before Africa’s jihad consolidates

On Feb. 4, 1920, Royal Air Force planes struck the fortified wells and stone forts of Taleh, decisively ending Mohammed Abdullah Hassan’s twenty-year Dervish resistance in British Somaliland. By deploying obsolete bombers alongside a small local levy, Britain accomplished what successive ground…

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