The World's Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia

by James Fergusson
Subject: Geopolitics
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The World's Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia, James Fergusson

The first authoritative account of the Somali region, its history, and the Islamic extremists operating there today.

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    $54.99 RRP
    ISBN: 9780593068359
    Published: 15/02/2013
    Imprint: Bantam Press
    Extent: 432 pages
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    ISBN: 9781446487051
    Published: 15/02/2013
    Imprint: Transworld Digital
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Although the war in Afghanistan is now in its endgame, the West's struggle to eliminate the threat from Al Qaida is far from over. A decade after 9/11, the war on terror has entered a new phase and, it would seem, a new territory. In early 2010 Al Qaida operatives were reportedly “streaming” out of central Asia towards Somalia and the surrounding region.

Somalia, now home to some of the world's most dangerous terrorists, was already the world's most failed state. There has been no effective government since 1991. Two decades of anarchy have spawned not just Islamic extremism but piracy, famine, and a seemingly endless clan-based civil war that alone has killed an estimated 500,000 and turned another two million into refugees.

What is now happening in Somalia directly threatens the security of the world, possibly more than any other region on earth. Fergusson's book is the first accessible account of how Somalia became the world's most dangerous place, and what we can – and should – do about it.

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