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13
  
http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/128663938.html

14
  Jim Adams,
Star Tribune
, and Jason Ryan, ABC News, 31 October 2011

Chapter 14 ‘Clanism is a disease like AIDS’

1
   Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic,
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
, vol. 41, 2009

2
   Somali militants target addicts in UK’s ‘khat cafés’, CNN, 23 February 2012

3
   See, for instance, Home Office Research Report no. 44, ‘Perceptions of the social harms associated with khat use’

4
   Burton,
First Footsteps
, op. cit.

5
   Robert Young Pelton, SomaliaReport, 8 May 2011

6
   Ian Black,
Guardian
, 26 February 2010; Mohammed Jamjoom and Gena Somra, CNN, 2 December 2010

7
,
8
 Mark Lancaster MP,
Hansard
, 11 January 2012

9
   Prof Abdulahi A. Osman,
Cultural Diversity and the Somali Conflict: Myth or Reality?
, African Studies Institute, University of Georgia 2007

10
  Hanley,
Warriors
, op. cit.

11
  David St George,
Camden New Journal
, 13 May 2004

12
  Robert Verkaik, ‘How MI5 blackmails British Muslims: “Work for us or we will say you are a terrorist”’,
Independent
, 21 May 2009

13
  FCO, 15 November 2011

14
  London
Evening Standard
, 15 November 2010; and see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFsIaUj1NPo

15
  The
Sun
, 23 November 2010 and 14 April 2011

16
  Quoted in the Puntland Development Research Centre’s booklet,
Somali Customary Law and Traditional Economy
, 2003

17
  Jeffrey Gettleman,
New York Times
, 5 October 2011

Chapter 15 Operation Linda Nchi: The end for al-Shabaab?

1
   See
data.unher.org
for updates of Dadaab’s fluctuating population

2
   
Daily Nation
, 21 June 2012/
Sabahi.com
(Kenya)

3
   
Daily Nation
, 30 May 2011 (Kenya)

4
   Knight Frank Prime International Residential Index, March 2012

5
   Rashid Abdi,
Daily Nation
(Kenya), 25 June 2012

6
,
7
 
Standard
(Kenya), 26 June 2012

8
   UK High Commission, Nairobi;
Allafrica.com

9
   
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-18662975/
, 1 July 2012

10
  
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19466828
, 3 September 2012

11
  
Daily Nation
(Kenya), 29 August 2012

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Acknowledgements

A great many people helped me with this book, but I am particularly indebted to the Airey Neave Trust, and its guardians Michael Bottenheim, Ed Butler, John Giffard and the late Paul Wilkinson, whose generous fellowship grant made an expensive research project financially viable. It was a privilege to have the confidence of so distinguished a body of people. My one regret is that the renowned Professor Wilkinson, who died suddenly in 2011 at the age of seventy-four, never saw the result of his kind support. Part of the Trust’s objective is to promote research ‘designed to make a discernible impact and to contribute in a practical way to the struggle against international terrorist activity’. I sincerely hope the trustees will feel that this book fulfils that brief.

Alongside a handful of people whose identities must remain undisclosed, I extend my especial thanks to Ahmed Abdullahi, Sahal Abdulle, Musa Duale Aden, Julian Alexander, Mohamed Ali (Wandsworth), Willy Athill, Richard Bailey, James Bays, Nick Beresford, John Bradshaw, Salih Brandt, Miles Bredin, Sophie Butler, Paul & Rachel Chandler, Charlie Courtauld, Osman Dagane, Julian Davies, Kabir Dhanji, Chris Donnelly, Sarah
Edworthy, Mohammed Ismail Elmi, Hassan Eymoy, Abdulhakim Mohamoud Haji Faqi, Mohamed Farah (Yare), Nuruddin Farah, Toby Fenwick-Wilson, Anders Folk, Per Gallestrup, Vivien Garrett, Patrick Gatara, Ngethe Gitungo, Nils Giversen, Kate Green, Cyprien Hakiza, Nick Hardwick, Stephen Harley, Simon Haselock, Mohamed H. Hassan (Gudbaaye), Mohamed-Rashid Sheikh Hassan, Carole Hillenbrand, Kate Holt, ‘Hotzi’, Fiona Houston, Buster Howes, David Stewart Howitt, Nick Hughes, Oliver Lee, Iman Nur Icar, Richard Jermy, Hugo Macpherson, Justin Marozzi, Herbert Mensah, Dick Meryhew, Will Milliken, Hassan Mohamed (Harlesden), Abdirizaq Mohedin, Rob Murphy, Mohamed Mustafa (Harlesden), Poly Muriithi, Jo Nickolls, William Noblett, Simona Opitz, Paddy O’Kennedy, Abdulrahman Abdurahman Osman (Shuke), David Orr, Andy Pring, David Ramsbotham, Dido Rasso, Alex Renton, Ruth Renton, Phil Rees, Hugh Riddell, Mari Roberts, Abdi Roble, Doug Rutledge, Hashi Shafi, Allie Shah, Mary Sharpe, William Snook, Jeremy Stampa-Orwin, Jon Stephenson, Jason Straziuso, Steve Turner, Henry Vines, Doug Young and Sabah Yusuf.

This list is not exhaustive: I have deliberately left out the names of several people who may find themselves mentioned in the main text. The most important name of all, however, is that of my wife Melissa. Without her love, patience, and encouragement – and exceptional proofreading skills – I could not have written this book.