TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fergusson,James
TI  - The world's most dangerous place: inside the outlaw state of Somalia 
SN  - 9780306821172
AV  - DT407.4 .F47 2013
U1  - 967.73053 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
KW  - Shabaab (Organization)
KW  - Qaida (Organization)
KW  - fast
KW  - Islamic fundamentalism
KW  - Somalia
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Social history
KW  - History
KW  - 1991-
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1960-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-393) and index; Part 1; 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 --; Part 2; Nomads' land; In the court of King Farole; Galkacyo : Pirateville; Hargeisa nights; How to start a border war --; Part 3; 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?
N2  - 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
ER  -