he counted there in 2008 stayed. once welcomed now fear. and dividing a nation. al-jazeera explores germany's long term economic strategy of pursuing immigrants from the arab world i feel knowledge among the syrian. how much money it does or if it you get those people put up fake. one german and i'm not the new germans on al-jazeera. arabic and states are trying to intervene can present on clean famous fruit spectacular conduct putting 2017 we reported on a more sinister reputation it was then developing as the nation with the highest group in right to ice in the western hemisphere so what happened to the young trinidadians who went to join islamic state for this update to that say giuliana

rufus has been finding out. just in the euphrates in minus one degrees same crowfoot has just bush to prepare for prayer in syria the year is 2013 and cruel food is believed to be the 1st islamic state recruit from the caribbean island of trinidad and tobago. everybody but one of the long. and this is cruel for its best friend for. seen

here training snipers in a recruitment video made by islamic state all eisel. according to government estimates $13020.00 data including women and children have since joined crowfoot and was stuff in the middle east. this makes trinidad the highest per capita contributor to eisele in the western hemisphere and some experts think up to 400 people may have gone. on all good with. me but these happy images of schools that i saw said they ran were only one side of the story. of the trade of agents joined as fighters and many were killed in battle. it is this edition of the eiffel magazine really made international headlines in an

appeal to muslims in his home country saying crawford called on them to take the fight back to trinidad and to terrify the disbelievers in their own homes and to make the streets run with their blood the question is why do so many 20 dady and take up arms feisal in the 1st place. today that is best known for its world famous carnival it may seem an odd place to be exporting fighters to eisele but there is a long established muslim community of those african and indian this said. they make up only 6 percent of the population but over the last decades the voice of black muslims has become louder mainly because of this man. oh. yes in leeds a movement called the gem of a muslim mean the community of muslims it was founded in the 1980 s.

to empower astrotrain a day dns who were converting to islam in the early days the jem'hadar muslimeen came to public notice because on the streets in forces were tackling the country's growing drugs trade their militant image was new to muslims here do you always have private security was you know i am no private security. people who are here with me all the time no i go anywhere i mean how i run down here i think of what i have a more powerful and i have a heart for the love for people of you guys my protection but abu bakker led the only armed islamic uprising against the western government. on 27th of july 1990 he and his men stormed parliament and held its m.p.'s at gunpoint of 6 pm this afternoon. the government of turning to big 0. was overthrown.

the prime minister of the government rushed. down muslimeen wanted to topple a government they said was criminal and corrupt but the population failed to support them after 6 days of chaos in which $24.00 people lost their lives accepted an offer of amnesty and surrendered. he claims when the muslimeen stopped policing the streets after the coup the government lost control and the power of the drug gangs erupted into a spiral of violence pre 19 anybody could tell us when i was on the control. their murder rate would not reach a 10450 the water almost 500 and this is predominantly among the african people the same or slave population that nobody ever did anything to have. his says the root cause that has been left untreated remains poverty the germans food in school programs for the community. there for

thousands of women women full of unemployment nothing to just sit in the ghetto and do nothing and then the drugs come in you know and it's a haven for the drugs and and now the guns and so the military it is just spiraling out of control do you think there is a connection between that and the fact that members of the opportunity and community have gone to fight in syria because of their marginalization and the difficulties with them to succeed because the african muslims. little is known about how fighters in trinidad are actually recruited and to find out more we have set off to follow the stories of showing profit and for reading this stuff . with carnival taking over the streets some muslims all for family friendly retreats. who are. like this one set up in a car. here man

who knew both crawford and the staff has agreed to meet us businessman mohammed has brought his whole family along he instantly recognizes crawford's photo i noticed a brother but he was in jail at least me and this right here free we was in the same cell they had 3 of us in a cell so then you know them intimately i mean can give you describe them or what sort of yak as they were they have good character good character in 20 year listen crawford mr arthur and others have rested for conspiring to assassinate the prime minister but all was soon released due to lack of evidence some people believe that the government of the time used the alleged plot as a pretext to arrest people who were being tracked for other reasons. why do you sing you a name appeared on this list of people and he just wanted to kill the prime minister that is a $1000000.00 question. because every so often i would go to physical. settlement

. over here led by even. has been. you know on the watch dog lists quite a few of the people who went to syria unknown to have been part of the germ od community of jews most in the town of real clara friedman stuff i lived there for while others like same crew for just pass through i see new people disappear. people i notice some belong to a real car all it would come in there was stay there for a week or 2 and then a disappear and the people in in the do even know they're leaving because if you go into syria to fight a war which. of course you would want to go silent you would want to tell your shadow bigger you don't want to be caught ashmead. says someone tried to recruit him to i remember clearly one night

a broad telling me. that he is considering going to syria and i should also go he said go courageously in to jihad. 9 with some bullet in your chest in your head in cause. if you die in that position it's the most honorable that you can get according to islamic teachings this is why you see so many people just rush into syria and will not investigate here fully. i said no i don't think i need. to go to have one. yet others came very close to read my stuff and for my house made a mosque has publicly stated that he considered joining.

me here. says he was part of the 1990 coupe but felt let down by its leader. we felt that. surrounded we were prepared to go down fighting. the government in this country on establish an islamic state. claims he planned terrorist attacks within trinidad but none have come to fruition now he wants to pursue an islamic state by peaceful means he's agreed to take us to booze mosque in rio claro this may be ruled trinidad but carnival is in full swing carnival now it's changed a lot since you were young we're all of us got more vulgar there's a lot more violent more immoral. lies just outside of town it's a mom now as

a mohammed very rarely talks to the media but thanks to my dollar he has agreed to speak to us early on a nice to meet you the a moment his family has given out land for free to create a self-sufficient community based on islamic principles this is how we could learn to love him give orders to below. and all together how big is your drama group ok go home 25 homes that's quite substantial do learn from reading this stuff or used to live in one of these houses until mustapha fell out with the imaam because you asked him to leave the mosque why was that. was this will be. one of the things that has been reported is that it involved the matter of the killing that he was unhappy human chain crawford. we're not happy with it was something that happened in the community. and i'm going to go into. it

there are reports that crawford and mustafa carried out a double murder before travelling to syria this mosque has long been on the radar of intelligence agencies. like the f.b.i. who came to crist. and wouldn't be. licensed on the tool but on to what a consumer what american policies. on the civil war civil war what he sees. all it will be but all of it all these people. if somebody came to you a young 20 day again and said i'm not sure if i should go and go to the caliphate and join i sell and fight it would you encourage them or would you try to hold them back. my. daughter. will be gone and never knew that. i never knew.

until a week or 2 on a delusion sort of you may not believe and never knew and. why do you think she left the room when it was going to go would not only not as it was due to look we're not going to little kids and there are many next though on. anyone knew that. by now at least 30 members of nasm mohammed's family have settled for syria children their spouses and grandchildren after leaving the mosque takes us to the house he shared with fareed moustapha when they 1st came to rio claro roof pretty much enjoyed each other's company did you speak to him after he left to syria where you attach for them when he was there we did share some words for one of the 2 from the book what did you say your courage in me to come. on home was what was to read like gods god does exactly. what you see there all

is would make a joke every now and again with you know things that are so so this killing that shayan and and for reeve carried out what life does that throw on him because that's not the happy go lucky person that we see in the pictures you know i thought it was more you sort of what i can see is that for you to have developed a type of. eagerness to fight for justice truth and justice to seek out a reason muse of how you can. get all the defenders brothers and sisters. by 2013 mustafa and crew food had already planned a trip to join but elated to avenge the death of a brother from to small he had been shot while trying to buy a gun. while driving around the city of shotgun as they found their tongues and

this is the corner where friedman stuff and chang crowfoot carried out their killing it's a spot well known for trouble. that jumped out of a car and broad daylight and shot dead dead 2 victims within weeks both were in syria. the fear is that i still recall it and has been feeding of trinidad's gang was some. the feuding guns drawn them was limb identity and are closely associated with mosques. we had to enterprise on the outskirts of child one and wishing crowfoot grew up. violence surged and to prise in july 26th teen after the murder of cell intellects also known as robo calls. to all this died at the scene including the killer. alex this was never convicted of any crimes but he was widely believed to be the good father of a local museum day after his killing some form of associates set up their own gang

but they became known as unruly ice since. i'm. wearin a foreign object *. it is friday and i'm really isis have agreed for us to join them so praying 2 2 the group is accused of a series of killings but the sermon is one of peace loving people and are only one of those willing to do what goes on what just doesn't bode standing in his imaam in this makeshift most avinash. aka abdul lucky and generally known as crisis good luck to me that we've heard about the last 2 weeks but we still read the quarterly was my best we asked crisis about the murder of a lexus my friend killed him i mean really my friend killed him and he died not

a reason why he killed them people might say oh you want to hear what the news and say about this guy right there was that he was on a well known best in this man that's what the new said about him you know i'm saying we over here in enterprise we know that he was a kidnap will. kill you. people you know what i'm saying price's says he wants his crew to be known simply as muslims claiming the name unruly isis was given to them by the media he sings anyone going to join i solicit misguided saying it's room for muslims to kill muslims so how then does he justify the same thing and to probably not understand something people call it as killing but in reality we what does that mean defending ourselves so it's like you know somebody's coming to kill you so's and then go get em fast you know what i'm saying that most of them were not and yes

ok with out no it's not ok is ok to defend yourself you know what i'm saying but it's not ok to kill an innocent person is enough or ok to kill an innocent person is not that we going to come out one day and say well ok give me a gun i'm going to kill this guy no it's not that that's what they make it seem like and this is our back against the laws it's got a got everything to do with these people bring in the drugs into our country if they would stop the drugs in the guns off way we have no kill and no crime and turned out that. the perception is that i saw recruited gang members who were already used to violence by promising them a more meaningful knife but many trinidadian recruits are well educated and come from wealthy families whose no use advised them not to tools so we returned to the mosque of jamaat al muslimeen to meet a man personally knew more than 15 of them throughout the son of the 1990 s. khuda wanted to spend some time try to minimalize this legacy that there is

a small group of people who are you know criminally oriented who get involved in these things about as much as the child and put them selves of risk for ideological reasons. and then they try to recruit. the fire of a friend who has already traveled to syria and they're sending in pictures of you know schools with kids and gardens and a society that is operating by islamic do or what interests a muslim unusual but videos attributed to eisele that depict violence all dismissed as american propaganda when a muslim says these videos of to drop is in deep along. playing in the background and is korean things i don't think any of them trusts those images you know many people say well it was very fired up for the roots of the problem in

trinidad he says i think some people feel as though there's no. almost instant political system that exists here and our strong nudity for some of these individuals see maybe we would need more of our difference. here. the government's response has been to pass a new terror bill aimed at curbing recruitment a former national security minister explains what's happening the organizations are well known by the agents by law enforcement agencies and the states i what is required is to come to you not just to monitor them but to read them and to find avenues to suppress them if you don't provide through and if you do not. explain and let these people know that you are enemies of the seas i'm going to crush you i'm not going to negotiate with you you embolden them you make them feel that they have an opportunity to speak more income or to try to rid you of more individuals and that is what should be prevented what trinidad feels most is an attack on home

soil especially on its lucrative oil and gas industry if it is that you are when we need to crush you we need to prevent you from going on even as you do will we need to put everything possible to make sure you do not ever get back. you need to run could be there for all of us to understand we're going to keep you might be a hero and you're going to be killed or you're going to die in syria and that is what is required. indeed many turn a date into travel to syria i'm no longer alive freedom stuff i died in battle and shane crawford was killed by an american drone. and then in june 2017 kurdish forces and the us coalition attacked isis de facto capital. most man state to fight but their women and an estimated $1200.00 eisel killed and fled to would safety among them these 2 bullies.

000000000 it's of what's up message sent by the red cross from northern syria in 2018 mahmoud and i you have been there for 4 years abducted by the trinidadians father from their mother perkins ferrera. since then the boys have been reunited with phyllis and so 2 years after our 1st filming trip to train their return to meet them when he left he told me he was going by his mother so and i was going to work so i couldn't even stack it up put one and one together the same idea will go when we're leaving the country phyllis is husband is believed to have died and the boys ended up here in the rush cancel i saw members run by kurdish forces went to travel 10000 kilometers to be reunited with them it made

national news. now taking to the really fun times there's also like. when i saw that i you would hear was like miami area. here then i hold back my hello to hold back the tears very obvious try to play a beggar but as soon as we close a dollar the cameras will one day he literally break. them in my arms once again i was like. i can expand one's home mahmoud and i you receive psychological support organized by trinidad's ministry of security which is also investigating the circumstances of other women and children still held in ice over refugee camps. they include families from fallacious religious community and her best childhood friend she's over there so her trick

it she had. one over in syria have friended told her that living on the ice was not as they'd once imagine the tired frustrated and. depressed america go on and on but basically all they want is to come back home just go back into the reality life and have it just a bit silly says nell campaigning for their return under the watch of the authorities and a policeman was present during our interview i still have families out there in stand because majority of them i grew up with. so no dice so have mothers cry for decades that it really matters me. nearly 100 trinidadian women and children are known to have emerged from high school territory they tryna daydream

government is now working on legislation that will determine whether and how they can return there are fears that not everyone who has fled has given up on line and means but back at home the issues that cause so many to dating still leave the country to be addressed. the island of sardinia a famously a delay khalid a spot. less well known as a proving ground for. investigating claims that years of military training and arms testing triggered cancer and birth defects amid the local population. secret sardinia people in power on

al-jazeera. these men are survivors of covert 1946 year old is a limousine driver is the only one here who needed to go to hospital when he became bill in early march with. border or. some balance board in november so deep is a 34 year old driver for kotori family and he tested positive my body. always more public. health officials say the rate of new infections has slowed the goal here is to conduct a broad serving to better understand transmission and asymptomatic cases which in turn could help policy decisions in the future so it would be easy for us to inform the a decision making on what to do next the goal now is to increase testing and contact tracing. the government provides retesting and medical treatment for those who need it while campaigns to raise awareness continue.

to own their own we as is the government not taking the necessary action to really address some of the structural issues we listen i still think that air travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter. to earth. i'm sammy's a than in the how with a look at the headlines here now to syria now international leaders will hold virtual talks in the coming hours to raise aid for the lebanese capital protests over tuesday's explosion in beirut have descended into street battles with green demonstrators and security forces hundreds of people were injured then i hope the reports from beirut. loom conclusion as. we

cannot face these problems unless we have early elections to elect new politicians and a new parliament we need a new political elite and a new parliament.