Al-Qaida's goal of creating an Islamic caliphate spanning the Muslim world is limited to a pocket of lawless boltholes controlled by separate factions.
The 32-year-old was first charged with sexual assault more than 10 years ago, in his home district of Mainpuri in the poor and lawless northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
The routes to supposed safety have forked and forked again: you can try your luck from Turkey into Greece and up into the Balkans, around to northern Egypt or, as the vast majority do, through the lawless funnel that Libya has become.
A security source said that on Sunday the girls were being held in camps scattered around the vast, desert border with Chad, a lawless area with little government reach from either Nigeria or Chad.
It was the way we invented and it was the way we like it too: a largely lawless match that Ancelotti called violent but was utterly compelling and furiously fast.
While few of the 700 migrants who drowned off the Libyan coast last week originated from Libya itself, this lawless patch of desert is now the chief passageway to the perils of the Mediterranean.
How perfect that when Odysseus first wakes on native ground he can't recognise his homeland and wonders: "What are they here – violent, savage, lawless?
It was the latest in a series of violent incidents that have once again highlighted the problems and discrimination linked to caste, particularly in lawless and impoverished rural areas.
"I have watched particularly the chaos in my own state of Anambra where a small clique of renegades, openly boasting its connections in high places, seems determined to turn my homeland into a bankrupt and lawless fiefdom.
