After the battle against pro-government troops, the Darfur rebel commander "searched the soldiers' decomposing faces for an aquiline nose, fair complexion or fine, straight hair" all telltale Arab features, wrote Times reporter Lydia Polgreen.

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Although he went to lengths to look like Patton wearing a receding hairpiece, using putty to make his nose more aquiline he decided to keep his own distinctive gravelly voice.

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