The world's most dangerous place : inside the outlaw state of Somalia /
Fergusson, James, 1966-,
The world's most dangerous place : inside the outlaw state of Somalia / James Fergusson. - First Da Capo Press edition. - 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-393) and index.
Living on the line. An African Stalingrad : the war against al-Shabaab ; At the Bancroft Hotel : America's proxy war ; The field hospital : what bombs and bullets do to people ; Aden's story ; The failure of Somali politics ; What makes al-Shabaab tick? ; The famine -- Nomads' land. In the court of King Farole ; Galkacyo : Pirateville ; Hargeisa nights ; How to start a border war -- The diaspora. The Somali youth time-bomb ; The missing of Minneapolis ; 'Clanism is a disease like AIDS' ; Operation Linda Nchi : the end for al-Shabaab?
This is an authoritative account of the Somali region, its history, and the story of the Islamic extremists operating there today cites the high human cost of the region's clan-based civil war while explaining how current activities are directly threatening world security.
0306821176 (hardcover) 9780306821172 (hardcover) : $27.50
2013933566
Qaida (Organization)
Islamic fundamentalism--Somalia.
Terrorism--Somalia.
Somalia--History--1991-.
Somalia--Social conditions--1960-.
The world's most dangerous place : inside the outlaw state of Somalia / James Fergusson. - First Da Capo Press edition. - 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-393) and index.
Living on the line. An African Stalingrad : the war against al-Shabaab ; At the Bancroft Hotel : America's proxy war ; The field hospital : what bombs and bullets do to people ; Aden's story ; The failure of Somali politics ; What makes al-Shabaab tick? ; The famine -- Nomads' land. In the court of King Farole ; Galkacyo : Pirateville ; Hargeisa nights ; How to start a border war -- The diaspora. The Somali youth time-bomb ; The missing of Minneapolis ; 'Clanism is a disease like AIDS' ; Operation Linda Nchi : the end for al-Shabaab?
This is an authoritative account of the Somali region, its history, and the story of the Islamic extremists operating there today cites the high human cost of the region's clan-based civil war while explaining how current activities are directly threatening world security.
0306821176 (hardcover) 9780306821172 (hardcover) : $27.50
2013933566
Qaida (Organization)
Islamic fundamentalism--Somalia.
Terrorism--Somalia.
Somalia--History--1991-.
Somalia--Social conditions--1960-.