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Somalia's instability is lucrative for some

By ABDI SHEIKH and RICHARD LOUGH

Life got easier for trader Siad Hussein when Somali Islamist militants pulled out of the capital. He no longer pays a Jihad tax nor does he have to watch mortars kill his customers.

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