Horribly close to a holy war
27 January 2007
Kiunga, on the Kenya–Somali border
He was a quiet American, and an oddity in Kiunga. For 20 hours I had rammed the Range Rover through tsetse fly-infested jungles teeming with buffalo. When earlier this month I limped into this Indian Ocean village, within earshot of US air strikes against Islamists across the frontier in Somalia, astonished Swahili fishermen said mine was the first vehicle to arrive for three months. Soon afterwards, the American — let’s call him ‘Carter’ — appeared out of nowhere.
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