The World's Most Dangerous Place (54 page)

Picture and Map Acknowledgements

All images have been supplied courtesy of the author unless otherwise stated. Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders. We apologize for any omissions in this respect and will be pleased to make the appropriate acknowledgments in future editions.

Maps

Somalia clan demography map based upon a CIA estimate only, as of 2002.

Photos

Page 1: Paul Lokech briefing © AMISOM. Page 2: Mogadishu street scene © Tim Freccia. Page 4: street fighting © AFP/Getty Images; al-Shabaab troops © Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP/Press Association Images. Page 5: children learning to shoot © AFP/Getty Images; children playing with toy guns © Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP/Press Association Images. Page 6: panoramic shot of Badbaado refugee camp © Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP/Press Association Images. Page 8: qat trader and Hargeisa money changers, both © AFP/Getty Images; Mogadishu marketplace © Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP/Press Association Images. Page 9: Mad Mullah © Mary Evans Picture Library; Kenyan airforce cartoon © Amin Amir. Page 10: Mogadishu beach landing © Roberto Borea/AP/Press Association Images; black hawk helicopter © Dominique Mollard/AP/Press Association Images; dead crewman dragged through the streets © Keystone USA/Rex Features. Page 11: top left image © Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP/Press Association Images; top right and bottom © Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP/Press Association Images. Page 12: Siad Barre © Team/Alinari/Rex Features; Abu Mansoor al-Amriki with Sheikh Mukhtar Robow and Sheikh Hassan Aweys, both © Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP/Press Association Images. Page 13: Hassan Sheikh Mohamud © AP/Press Association Images. Page 14: EUNAVFOR warship © AP/EUNAVFOR. Page 15: Muktar Said Ibrahim and Ramzi Mohammed © Metropolitan Police; Muktar Said Ibrahim © Getty Images; Hanif Qadir © Lefteris Pitarakis/AP/Press Association Images. Page 16: rally in Mogadishu © Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP/Press Association Images; rally in Minneapolis © Jeremy Stratton; London conference 2012 © Getty Images.

Index

Abdallah, Abdirahman Haji
287

Abdi, Mohamed Mohamed (Gandhi)
362–6
,
368–70
,
372
,
382

Abdi-Osman
6–7
,
125–6

Abdikadir (deserter)
128–9
,
130

Abdikadir (prisoner)
171

Abdille, Sheikh
243

Abdirazak, Mohamed
170

Abdulkarim
49–50

Abdullah
346
,
347
,
349–50

Abdullahi, Hassan
348–9

Abdullahi, Mohamed
323

Abdulle, Ismael Khalif
71

Abshir
122–3

Abu Hamza
275

Abu Mus’ab, Abdi-Aziz (Sheikh)
34
,
153

Abubakar as-Saddique Islamic Center
291–2
,
298
,
299
,
302–4

Active Change Foundation
280–82

Adam, Scott and Jean
183

Adan, Mahmoud
10

Aden
see
Ibrahim, Aden

Aden, Mohamed (Tiiccey)
185

Aden, Sharif Hassan (Sheikh; speaker)
84
,
85–6
,
97

al-Afghani, Ibrahim
225

Afghanistan
2

African Union
see
AU

African Village, Mogadishu
114–15

Ahlu Sunna Waljama’a (ASWJ)
74
,
96
,
185

Ahmed, Abdi
193

Ahmed, Abubakr
380–81

Ahmed, Ahmed Hussein (Abu Ayyub al-Muhajir)
129
,
253

Ahmed, Ducaysane
179
,
182

Ahmed, Kader
284–5

Ahmed, Mohamed Idris
303–4

Ahmed, Nimco
306–8
,
323
,
351

Ahmed, Sharif Sheikh (Sheikh)

famine
148

Kampala Accord
98

and Pascoe
149

presidency
4
,
65

and Sharif Hassan Aden
84
,
97

Ahmed, Shirwa
296
,
306
,
307–8
,
309

Ahmed, Zuhur
309–311

Ahmet, Atilla
285

Aidid, Mohamed Farah
28

airport, Mogadishu
27

al-Qaida

9/11 attacks
41

and al-Shabaab
1
,
103
,
320

leaders
103
,
105
,
106
,
107

Ras Kamboni
376

recruitment
288–9

support for in US
291

US concerns about
63

see also
bin Laden, Osama

al-Shabaab

Aden’s story
69–74

and al-Qaida
1
,
103
,
320

AMISOM’s medical treatment
44

deserters
120–24

dispersing
382

factions
65
,
102–7

famine
133–5
,
150–51

foreign fighters
287

formation of
65

guerrilla campaign
5

Kismayo
371

leaders
101
,
225

Mogadishu
3
,
17
,
21
,
27
,
153

and piracy
203

Rahanweyn
60

recruitment
8
,
69
,
152–3
,
253
,
255
,
302

Somali diaspora
7

spokesman
108

Taliban, influence of
1

trenches
18

weapons
57

Alasow, Yahye
136

Ali, Abdisalam
325–6

Ali, Abdiweli Mohamed
99

Ali, Amina Farah
301

Ali, Mo
268

Ali, Mohamed
343

Ali, Mohamed Nur
199

Ali, Yusuf Abdi
226

Ali Zubeyr, Moktar (Godane; Sheikh)
102–4
,
107
,
134
,
150
,
225