But for decades — as the government imploded, warlords took over, more warlords came and an Islamist insurgency swept across Somalia — Dr. Abdi has persevered, offering a refuge for thousands of families driven from their homes by relentless street battles.
While Lean recorded a rough cut of Warlord over Sherman's beats, Gud returned to Sweden and broke off almost all contact with the rest of Sad Boys.
Much of the mayhem seems to be unfolding before the gaze of America's wartime allies, the Uzbek warlords who took over when the Taliban collapsed.
Her revulsion for the wild men of the Red Army as they rape and kill, for the corrupt warlords who take over in Grozny, for Vladimir Putin and his value-free Russia, for fellow journalists who play fellow travellers, is constant and corrosive.
"Another goal for Isok!" And Mr. Isok, show-off that he was, trotted his white stallion over to a man named Noor, one of the warlords presiding over the day's match.
Warlords fought over every port, fishing pier and telephone pole that could turn a profit.
In both government territory and rebel-held areas, warlords squabble over turf while taking for granted a grass-roots support they have never worked to acquire.
(In the same period Hungary underwent its own disintegration, and strong feudal warlords ruled over its different parts. Most of Slovakia was then controlled by the mighty Matúš Čak, lord of Trenčín).
He is captured by the hateful chieftain Immortan Joe (played by Mad Max veteran Hugh Keand-Byrne) and taken to his grotesque stronghold, the Citadel, where Joe warlords it over an oppressed semi-bestial populace by controlling the water supply and bizarrely supplementing their fluid intake with industrial quantities of mother's milk, farmed from imprisoned pregnant women.
