Early 20th-century GWOT against an Islamic robber warlord -- VIDEO: "Anglo-Somali War - The Somali Dervish Movement I THE GREAT WAR 1921."

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"In Somalia one hundred years ago, one rifle cost three hundred camels."

Worth it, I'd say.




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