http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/670F86C5-D98A-433F-BC7A-DAE0B346E7A9.htm<snip>
"A Somali police chief and former militia commander has been arrested on suspicion of war crimes after attending a conference in Sweden, police and organisers say.
Abdi Hassan Awale, was arrested after Somalis in the Nordic country recognised him and reported him to police, said Gillian Nilsson, an organiser of the conference.
Awale, also known as Abdi Qeybdiid, was the commander of clan leader Farah Aidid's troops that fought American peacekeepers in Mogadishu in the early 1990s.
One of those confrontations in 1993 was featured in the book and film Black Hawk Down, and left 18 US soldiers and hundreds of Somalis dead."
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