Earlier this week,a group representing Mogadishu's dominant Hawiye clan said that al-Shabab militants had sent death threats to clan elders for participating in peace and reconciliation efforts with Somalia's interim government.

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He's also described as the protector of patriarchs, patriarchal figures, "a God of the father of the clan," it says in the text.

他也被描述成族长们和统治者们的保护神，“氏族之父的上帝“，文中说。

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In September,a power struggle erupted in violence in the lower Juba region between al-Shabab and Hizbul Islam, a clan-based Islamist-nationalist group which had been al-Shabab's main ally in its year-long battle to overthrow the U.N.-backed government in Mogadishu.

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