Individuals suspected of belonging to three separate northern clans affiliated with the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta were apprehended.
Being affiliated to a clan made us proud," he says.
And in the past few days, a trial involving 17 mobsters affiliated to one clan begun, he adds.
Rohde and his companions have just been kidnapped by Taliban militants affiliated with the Haqqani clan, an organized criminal element in Afghanistan working alongside Taliban and Qaeda fighters.
The clans, to which persons were affiliated by descent and within which interclan affairs were administered by a council of clan heads, have given way to reserve groups.
A rapper affiliated to US group the Wu-Tang Clan has been taken to hospital after apparently severing his penis and then jumping from a second-floor balcony.
The part of southern Somalia that borders Kenya has become a war zone, as the Shabab have battled clan militias that are loosely affiliated with Somalia's transitional government and armed by Ethiopia and Kenya.
Tucked away in a corner in the Brooklyn Museum, there's an unworn pair of baggy camouflage pants identified as Wu-Wear -- the clothing line affiliated with the Staten Island-based rap group Wu-Tang Clan.
Ahmed Abdi Godane), a member of Qawdhan's Arab clan and Shabaab's current leader, officially affiliated the group with al Qaeda in early 2012, ushering in a new level of chaos and violence between the nationalist and international jihadist camps.
It was formerly affiliated with Jacobson Family Investment Inc., a family office that manages investments for a New York clan with large industrial holdings.
The disputes appear to involve clan loyalties and differences over strategy and policy, according to people affiliated with the group's second in command, Sheik Muktar Roobow Abu Mansor.
