Somalia

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Partisan critics say President Obama's continuing embrace of rendition, along with his inability to shutter Guantanamo, are proof that his assertions as a candidate have collided with the realities of being the commander in chief, most recently the weekend raids in Somalia and Libya. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** American-born Islamist militant Omar Hammami addresses a press conference of the militant group al-Shabab at a farm in southern Mogadishu's Afgoye district in Somalia, May 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

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Omar Shafik Hammami, a jihadi from Alabama whose nom de guerre was Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki, or "the American," ascended the ranks of Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked militant group al-Shabab high enough to attract a $5 million U.S. government bounty. He was killed on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, in an ambush ordered by the militant group's leader, militants said. (AP Photo/FBI)

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Somali soldiers look at the bodies of some of those who were killed in a suicide and car bomb blasts at a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday, Sept, 7, 2013. (Farah Abdi Warsameh)