The World's Most Dangerous Place (52 page)

5
   
http://www.wfp.org/videos/50cent-somalia-never-seen-anything-like-this

6
   
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/01/liz-jones-somalia-famine

7
   
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2011/jul/20/un-declares-famine-somalia

8
   
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14422427
, 5 August 2011

9
   UN Monitoring Group report, March 2010

10
  
Daily Nation
, (Kenya) quoted by
UPI
, 26 July 2011

11
  
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15166107?OCID=fbwin
, 4 October 2011

Chapter 8 In the court of King Farole

1
   CIA
World Factbook
2012

2
   
The Economics of Piracy
, Geopolicity (consultancy), 24 April 2011

3
   Burton,
First Footsteps in East Africa
, op. cit.

4
   Hanley,
Warriors
, op. cit.

5
   I.M. Lewis,
A Pastoral Democracy
, OUP 1961, p12

6
   International Chamber of Commerce, International Maritime Bureau

7
   Holly Watt,
Telegraph Magazine
, 7 April 2012

8
   
Myanmar Times
, 11 November 2011

Chapter 9 Galkacyo: Pirateville

1
   Hanley,
Warriors
, op. cit.

2
,
3
 S
omali Customary Law and Traditional Economy – Cross-sectional, pastoral, frankincense, and marine norms
, Puntland Development and Research Centre, Garowe 2003

4
   
the-numbers.com/movies

5
   Allie Shah,
Star Tribune
, 4 November 2011

6
   David Cameron speech at Witney, Oxfordshire, 15 August 2011

7
   Jay Bahadur,
Deadly Waters – Inside the Hidden World of Somalia’s Pirates
, Profile Books 2011, p100

8
   
The Times
, 28 March 2011

9
   Sucaad Mire, ‘Women Flock to Pirates with Money’, SomaliaReport, 24 September 2011

10
  Jamestown Foundation, ‘Was the Battle for Galkacyo a Clan Dispute or a Victory for Puntland Over al-Shabaab?’, T
errorism Monitor
, vol. 9, issue 35, 15 September 2011

11
  FCO Communiqué, 23 February 2012

12
  SomaliaReport, 31 March 2012

Chapter 10 Hargeisa Nights

1
   Eric Lafforgue,
medeshivalley.com
, 2 May 2012

2
   Capt Malcolm McNeill, DSO, & Lt A.C.H. Dixon,
In Pursuit of the ‘Mad’ Mullah: Service and Sport in the Somali Protectorate
, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd 1902, republished by Kessinger

3
   Mark Tran,
Guardian
, 4 January 2012; CIA
World Factbook
2012

4
   Monty Munford,
The Kernel
, 18 May 2012

5
   
http://www.alunmichael.com/news/general-news/news.aspx?p=102554

6
   
‘Hostages to Peace’: Threats to Human Rights and Democracy in Somaliland
, Human Rights Watch, July 2009

7
   
http://en.rsf.org/somalia-in-past-week-in-somaliland-25-16-01-2012,41685.html

Chapter 11 How to start a border war

1
   Jeffrey Bartholet, ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’,
Newsweek
, 22 October 2009

2
   Abridged version of translation by B.W. Andrzejewski,
Somali Poetry: An Introduction
(Oxford Library of African Literature), Clarendon 1964

3
   Douglas Jardine,
The Mad Mullah of Somaliland
, Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1923

4
   Bartholet,
Newsweek
, 22 October 2009, op. cit.

5
   Akiva J. Lorenz, ‘Analyzing the
USS Cole
Bombing’,
MaritimeTerrorism.com
, 27 December 2007

6
   Translator’s introduction to
Ignorance is the Enemy of Love
by Faarax M.J. Cawl, Zed Books 1982

7
   The noted poet Hadraawi, quoted by Jeffrey Bartholet, op. cit.

8
   
http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=7064&view=previous&sid=e65ee32112ce2a70f5a70914fc064485
and
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000457.html

9
   Peter Bridges,
Safirka: An American Envoy
, Kent State University Press 2000

10
  Jardine,
The Mad Mullah of Somaliland
, op. cit.

11
  
http://www.somaliareport.com/index.php/post/3202/Somaliland_Arrest_Journalists_In_Las-Anod

Chapter 12 The Somali youth time-bomb

1
   
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16296849

2
   House of Commons Home Affairs Committee,
Roots of violent radicalisation
, Nineteenth Report of Session 2010–12, vol. 1, HC1446, 6 February 2012

3
   Also reported by the
Sun
in August 2011:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3782328/A-third-of-youth-prisoners-are-foreign.html

4
   Joseph Rowntree Foundation,
Young People and Territoriality in British Cities
, October 2008

5
   Jason Lewis,
Daily Telegraph
, 13 August 2011

6
   Ministry of Justice statistics quoted by Alan Travis,
Guardian
, 24 October 2011

7
   
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13566526

8
   
http://www.spittoon.org/archives/10654

9
   
New York Times
, 5 October 2011

10
  Pew Research Centre; Sean Rayment and Colin Freeman,
Sunday Telegraph
, 18 February 2012

11
  Richard Norton-Taylor,
Guardian
, 7 February 2012

12
  House of Commons Home Affairs Committee,
Roots of violent radicalisation
, op. cit.

Chapter 13 The missing of Minneapolis

1
   
http://www.fbi.gov/minneapolis/press-releases/2011/minneapolis-man-pleads-guilty-to-terrorism-offense

2
   Opening statement to the Third Committee on Homeland Security, US Congress, 27 July 2011

3
   Andrea Elliott,
New York Times
, 11 July 2009

4
   Osman Dagane, speaker of the All-Somali Community of Minnesota

5
   Andrea Elliott, op. cit.

6
   For more details see Laura Yuen, MPR, 15 April 2009
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/14/friends_of_the_missing/

7
   For more details see:
http://www.nefafoundation.org/newsite/file/US_v_AminaFarahAli_dojprguilty.pdf

8
   Richard Meryhew, Allie Shah and James Walsh, ‘The Making of a Minneapolis Suicide Bomber’,
Star Tribune
, 6 May 2009

9
   
http://www.kfai.org/somalicommunitylink

10
  For more detail see:
http://pjmedia.com/blog/minneapolis-imam-decries-the-hell-of-living-in-america/

11
  Mark Tran,
Guardian
, 4 January 2012, op. cit.

12
  For more detail see:
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/07/140234451/under-suspicion-at-the-mall-of-america