Outside Mogadishu one young extremist tells us: "If Americans come in our country we will kill them one by one. We remember the thousands they killed in '93. We support Osama Bin Laden because he is a real Muslim." The country's largest corporation and main bank, Al Barakaat, has had its assets frozen by the US, plunging this poverty-stricken country into further chaos. 3/4 of Somalis survive on money sent by family working abroad. Now they can't get their cash. The bank's directors deny terrorist links. Sheik Salim believes that "It's a question of retaliation. The Americans were defeated in the early nineties and now they have a score to settle." We see a cathedral destroyed by al Itihaad - the militant group the US believes offers shelter to al Qaeda. Most Somalis live in fear of America's next move. But we also meet warlords willing to talk up terrorism in return for added firepower. We go inside a fundamentalist funded Koranic school. We even see a ship named the 'Usama Bin Laden'. Somalia is fertile ground for extremists and the worry is that US attacks may well fan the flames. President Abdul Kassim grants us a rare interview: "If anyone tries to harm this country every sort of radicalisation will take place, every kind of extremist will come pretending to help the Somalis...".

A report by Juliana Ruhfus for Unreported World.

Produced by Mentorn