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n. - Striped hyena of southeast Africa that feeds chiefly on insects.

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  • I googled, and found an online English-Manx dictionary: http://homepages. enterprise.net/kelly/LIST/DICTIONARY/dict/The first two words: aardvark, muc hallooin aardwolf,...
  • The aardwolf clearly caught the attention of the White House and Pentagon.
  • After his aardwolf circulated in Washington, then–U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte heard from an official at the National Security Council.
  • Senior U.S. military officers in Baghdad bitterly complained that they had been “blindsided” by the aardwolf, and tensions grew between the CIA and the Pentagon.
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