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Somali insurgent leader Robow defects to government
Former Somali insurgent leader Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur has defected to the government, a military official said, severing ties with Islamist group al Shabab two months after the U.S. quietly removed a 5 million dollar reward for his capture.
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"Robow and his seven bodyguards are now in Hudur with local officials. He will be flown to Mogadishu soon," Colonel Nur Mohamed, a Somali military officer, told Reuters by phone from the southwestern town of Hudur.
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