MOGADISHU, SOMALIA -- The voice on the other end of my cellphone was oddly calm, but intent.
"Abukar, I am calling to inform you that we have decided to take your life," the caller said. I glanced down at my phone to see the caller ID, which read "private."
"You're not worthy to live," the man continued. "You have three hours to tell your family and say your last words."
"Who is this?" I demanded.
"I am a man," was the reply.
It wasn't my first death threat. As a journalist in Somalia, I've received more than I'd care to count. In some, angry callers curse me as a "puppet" of the U.N.-backed transitional government in Baidoa and the Ethiopian troops that support it. Others accuse me of being a "terrorist" supporting the Islamic insurgents.
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