Other clans, too, have left their mark.
The Somalis were slow to trust people from other clans, let alone F.B.I. agents.
Officials indicated that they might now go after other clans known to be linked to Fatah.
Even now, the Jifris are trusted and respected like few other clans in rural Yemen.
Now, according to witnesses in Somalia, many other clans are involved, even Bantus, a minority group best known as farmers.
In some tribes certain clans regarded themselves as more closely related to each other than to other clans.
By the early 1990's, the Oneida leaders representing the two other clans had died, leaving Mr. Halbritter as the sole representative.
They fled because of persecution: the family is part of the clan of the ruling party and other clans were seeking retribution.
A deal must offer the Hawiye enough to keep them on board, but not so much that it alienates other clans.
The teaching personnel may consist of fully initiated men, often unknown to the initiate though they are his relatives in other clans.
Female cubs inherit the status of their mothers; young males sometimes move to other clans, where they are more likely to breed.
