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Somalia, on the end of the Horn of Africa, has been inhabited dating back to 9,000 B.C. Its record is as abundant as the country is old. Swept up in a decades-long civil conflict, Somalia, along with Iraq and Afghanistan, has become one of the very most dangerous countries on earth. Getting there's a forty-five-hour, five-flight voyage through Frankfurt, Dubai, Djibouti, Bosasso (on the Gulf of Aden), and, finally, Galkacyo. Somalia is a place where a government has been built out of anarchy. For centuries, reviews of pirates have captured imaginations surrounding the world. The recent rings of daring, ragtag pirates from the coast of Somalia, hijacking multimillion dollars tankers possessed by international shipping conglomerates, have helped bring the scourge of piracy into the modern era. The catch of the American-crewed cargo ship Maersk Alabama in Apr 2009, the first United States ship to be hijacked in almost two generations, catapulted the Somali pirates onto primetime media. Then, with the horrific getting rid of by Somali pirates of four People in america, two of whom got built their goal yacht and were cruising surrounding the world ("And today to: Angkor Wat! And Burma!" they had written to friends), america Navy, Special Procedure Forces, FBI, Justice Section, and the world's military services forces were put on notice . . . The Somali seas were now the most perilous on earth. Jay Bahadur, a journalist who dared to make his way into the remote control pirate havens of Africa's easternmost country and spend calendar months infiltrating their lives, offers us the first close-up go through the invisible world of the pirates of war-ravaged Somalia.
