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Airport Security Staffer Suspended For Secretly Being an Accused Somali War Criminal

Brendan O'Connor · 06/02/16 09:10AM

A security guard at Washington, DC’s Dulles International Airport has been placed on administrative leave after a CNN investigation identified him as an accused war criminal. Colonel Yusuf Abdi Ali was head of the Somali army’s Fifth Brigade under the dictator Siad Barre, and is accused of overseeing torture and mass executions during Somalia’s brutal civil war in the 1980s.