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According to U.S. officials, both were briefly on the CIA payroll in 2006 under a covert program to fight the rise of the Islamists, a plan that fell apart when the Islamists drove the warlords from power last June.

 

Awale is a former police chief and later served as a top aide to Mohammad Farah Aideed, the late militia leader whose forces killed 18 American servicemen in the infamous "Black Hawk Down" incident in Mogadishu in March 1993.

 

Dheere was the ruler of Jowhar, a quiet trading center north of Mogadishu, where he presided over a famously ruthless extortion network.

Former warlord Mohamed Dheere takes control in Somali capital
By Mahad Elmi and Shashank Bengali
McClatchy Newspapers

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A former warlord who for a time had been on the CIA payroll was sworn in Friday as mayor of Mogadishu and announced a plan to pacify this turbulent African capital within three months by requiring residents to turn in their guns.