I was a shivering in bed on my first night in Mogadishu. At 3:30 am, I killed the air conditioner. Moments later, the room felt stuffier than a London subway. I got up and paced around, wondering if it was safe to keep the balcony door open. A few months...

This clip features General Buttnaked (a.k.a. Joshua Milton Blahyi), who reputedly killed over 25,000 people during the civil war in Liberia, making him history’s greatest mass murderer. I interviewed and filmed him near Monrovia/Liberia in 2008, where he said he had”converted” to Christianity and was saving former child soldiers. During...