Fergusson, James,  1966- <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-393) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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?  Part 1.  Part 2.  Part 3. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780306821172 0306821176 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013933566 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Shabaab (Organization)<br/>Qaida (Organization)<br/>Qaida (Organization)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>Since 1960 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Islamic fundamentalism--Somalia.<br/>Terrorism--Somalia.<br/>Islamic fundamentalism.<br/>Social history.<br/>Terrorism.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Somalia--History--1991-<br/>Somalia--Social conditions--1960-<br/>Somalia.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DT407.4  / .F47 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>967.73053