The World's Most Dangerous Place (61 page)

TFG (Transitional Federal Government)

exile
64

famine
148

and ICU
65

Mogadishu
153

nature of
61
,
83–5

UN sponsors
92

war against al-Shabaab
14
,
15

winding up
4

Thisted, Poul
195

Tieglow, Somalia
69

TNG (Transitional National Government)
61

Transitional Federal Government
see
TFG

tribalism (qabyalad)
9
,
339

see also
clanism
;
clans

Tudor Rose nightclub, London, UK
251–3
,
258–61

Twin Cities
see
Minneapolis
;
St Paul

Uganda
37
,
38
,
54

Ugandan People’s Defence Force (UPDF)
13–14

UK (United Kingdom)

Active Change Foundation
280–82

counter-terrorism strategy
255
,
262–3
,
265
,
266

fighters
105
,
287

gangs
261
,
262
,
263
,
266–70
,
273
,
349

and Kenya
379

London
254–5

marfish, Southall
328
,
330–33

Muslim Contact Unit
274–7

Muslims
216
,
287–8

policy on Somalia
223

prisons
263–4
,
268

qat
327–9
,
330–33

Somalis
253–5
,
264
,
270–71
,
285–6

terrorism threat
267

Universal TV
277–9

UN (United Nations)

AMISOM mandated by
14

Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS)
90

Puntland
168

Somali mission 1992-95:
29

UNICEF
151

UNOSOM
91–2

UNICEF
151

Universal TV (UTV)
277–9

UNOSOM
91–2

UNPOS (UN’s Political Office for Somalia)
90

UPDF (Ugandan People’s Defence Force)
13–14

US (United States)

anti-ICU alliance
63
,
64

countering radicalism
344

military intervention, views on
30

policy on Somalia
222

terrorist-trained Somali-Americans
288

see also
FBI
;
Minneapolis
;
St Paul

veils
220

Villa Somalia presidential complex
80–81

Wahhabist ideas
7

warlordism
95

Warsame, Abdi Aziz
349

Warsame, Abdiwali
302–6

Watkinson, Alan
10

weapons
55–6
,
57

Wiktorwicz, Quintan
344

Wilson, E.K.
299–301
,
302

women

FGM
206–9

headscarves
350–51

qat
335

rape
52
,
221

status of
208
,
209
,
210

veils
220

women’s ward
52–3

World Food Programme
133–4

Xagla-Toosiye (‘Hip Straightener’)
247

xeer
50–51
,
190
,
198
,
242

Ximan & Xeeb
185

Yarisow
89
,
92
,
95

Yemen
1
,
329–30

young men
see
young people

young people
5–6

child soldiers
126–7

diaspora
7

engagement with
9
,
10

radicalization
263
,
264
,
265
,
266
,
274

successor generation
50
,
124

see also
gangs
;
Minneapolis
;
UK

youth organizations
342–4

Yuen, Laura
323

Yussuf
354

Yusuf
379

Yusuf, Abdullahi
159
,
161

Yusuf, Sharmarke
263
,
264–6
,
271
,
333

Z Force raids (RAF)
244–5

Zaad
218

al-Zawahiri, Ayman
103
,
107

Zienab
296

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

James Fergusson
is a freelance journalist and foreign correspondent who has written for many publications including the
Independent
,
The Times
, the
Daily Mail
and
The Economist
. A regular television and radio commentator on Afghanistan and the Taliban, he is the author of four previous books including
A Million Bullets
, which was the British Army’s Military Book of the Year. He is married with four children and lives in Edinburgh.