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this is one of the most dangerous places on earth photo over by armed is the most groups pirates and bandits somalia is a country with no law and order. where an armed escort is essential at all times. this film of record a seven hundred kilometer journey across the somali desert in search of a rumor the. mysterious containers filled with toxic liquid that suddenly began appearing on somalia's coast this anomaly in december two thousand and four destroyed everything here. it also washed ashore a strange objects. there's a poison inside of this. all sounds like. but the food if it's left like that

eventually it will break open and spread lies no one seeder she got through that. window but there are no coast guards in somalia to keep an eye on such things anybody can come and just don't put everyone. on both sides of the barrel is a sturdy hook apparently used when being lifted by a crane and so more easily thrown overboard. we have negotiated a meeting with the council of village chiefs that the fish were killed by the barrels that were leaking that's what killed them. because. even the color of the water changed when anyone went into the sea here develop skin problems. so what do you do when your fish disappears from the sea or what are your options.

after. the up a lot actually. i thought before about three quarters of the people here lived off of fishing that was nowadays it's barely one in twenty sca and some of turned to power received others have nothing. we asked the village elders whether we could talk with one of the pirates like many of the others he is a former fisherman now forced into piracy. i became a pirate because of all the foreign ships that have been destroying our fish and livelihoods that's what really made us become pirates. we get financial backing from some people and then we go looking for ships to capture. all of the. toxic waste played a role in this is not. the full of course for three hundred miles around here there's toxic waste still smoking all but. somehow the one who gets too close will

lose consciousness gold will be thought through. eight hundred kilometers away mogadishu is our next destination. we head for the hospital. for several years the somali doctors have been struggling to deal with numerous genetic defamations of the genitals the bladder and the urine a canal they are the typical result of exposure to dangerous chemicals. in means. because you have. something. to do you have any ideas or see his. three foot. tree swollen feet. in this hospital this is. by march one thousand nine hundred four the militias have

become old powerful. taliban and u.s. forces were getting ready to leave. a young italian journalist albi was covering their withdrawal. her drive and persistence led a larry lp to uncover a completely different story one of blood fishing boats. to promote the fishing trade in somalia the italian government give trawlers to a company called shift go however shift those boats did not seem to do a lot of fishing they made trips back and forth to europe in somalia they were under the control of an armed group ilario suspected that the boats were transporting something other than fish you know consumers ford. show on our last trip to mogadishu a larry i met with a small the national who mentioned the traffic and talks of waste our future from go fish he had. decided to check the story in the town of bull sauce sold out of

both sides of. it was there another journalist met with one of the leaders of an armed militia group here. this was to be her last interview. where is the ballots can i see it tell it it why do you want to see it over for us buyers something just use the information that's all but ending for the sound of us if i don't see her country. radio you won't believe it until you see it uses satellite been. shortly after the interview ilario i'll be on her camera man were murdered in mogadishu. the car in which they were traveling was attacked by an armed gang that immediately fled. the death of a larry i'll be sparks dozens of inquiries in italy. legal

authorities sifting through all the businesses operating in somalia and in doing so uncovered the fraudulent toxic way. market. modern industry produces an increasing amount of potentially fatal waste from chemicals to heavy metals and even radioactive products the more dangerous the material the more expensive it is to destroy. as a result certain individuals all for a cheaper alternative dump the waste in the third world a solution which is completely illegal. and the italian authorities have exposed one of these networks it is not the only one of its kind and it is certainly not the most significant. for people who are involved in this toxic wing the former owner a somali console leoni. an expert in toxic waste

got a really. great businessman and a key contact for the italian army in mogadishu jan carlo you know. and the fourth man in the network is none other than the then president of somalia. in one thousand nine hundred five a former president appoints only honorary consul schedule only makes full use of his devil magic status to set up the toxic waste scam ignores the fact that in one nine hundred ninety three international treaty for bids the export of dangerous waste materials from europe to the third world. scud leoni turd northern italian industrial complexes it went from door to door like a common salesman to any industry that needed to rid itself of toxic waste. its destruction

is expensive and he offered to do the job on the cheap. among the industrialists skag loney called on is this man a scrap metal merchant from the true and region who only agreed to be interviewed on the condition of anonymity. said they were looking for people who had ways to get rid of its. earlier yes but the problem was they had to look for quite a few in order to fill their ship. true and i never compared to what and how many tons can be loaded on to the ship from. this ship must of been at least ten thousand tons. at one hundred dollars a ton a full load could earn a substantial paul for us of one million dollars but scheduling only raise so much

dust in his rounds of industry that he began to draw the attention of the authorities a judge in the northern italian town of asked to lead the inquiry he also rise the phone tapping over several months of suspected members of the network. the rule was to collect the waste but that's what he himself told the industrialists he met. he also said what he was doing was entirely legal if you needed that call however the point was that at the time somalia was a country that couldn't legally import such sort of waste. whatever documentation he provided if you believe. these days scott looney is no longer a somali honorary consul is so shared with masonic and templar organizations and is the self-proclaimed head of the phantom state of nevada a tiny island off the coast of haiti. it effectively exists only on the internet he

agreed to be interviewed only in his capacity of the prince of. c. were. so if your country is recognized and you become head of state. then you would have diplomatic immunity the privilege. i look at as would any head of state yes. you have held a diplomatic post haven't you c.d.'s but that was a long time ago you were somali honorary consul wants to see for four years yes. there are some people who believe you use this diplomatic role to bring toxic waste into somalia is that true. show me i have no idea what you're talking about. and you don't want to talk about it or you don't know what i'm talking about and

i'm sticking to what i said at the store and won't budge from that so you don't want to talk about it. as i said i can talk to you. but that is all. for free for you don't want to drag a pastor to release only or present. the course. the prince of nevada revealed nothing further. his business partner at the time was john carlo mad at you know a shipping agent. who controlled the port in the north of mogadishu march you know had been living in somalia for more than ten years he knew the warlords was an informer for the italian army had won several construction contracts and peddled favors in the influence. it was martino who provided the access to ali mahdi the somali president. he claimed to get presidential authorization to import toxic

waste. so was there a network put in place to export toxic waste to somalia the this shit took sick also they. did it only there was no network talk yes i'll do this to send that a lot of that you believe me tell you it was just to make money it was a fraud that my shit will take the money up front and then say sorry i couldn't do anything and he had the material couldn't be shipped or some such excuse proof it is a sort of scam drug the way it works is i offer to do something for you you pay me to advance to do it and it doesn't work out in the meantime i've made twenty or thirty thousand feet to fit you. that you dish will inquiry established that then somali president was also to receive his share from the toxic waste trait

roughly thirty five percent of the profits. today ali money is no longer president believes the ny. the cultural capital of kenya and refuses to speak to journalists . he does however insist that the evidence implicating him is false. and yet it was official also arise ation issued from the presidential office in one thousand nine hundred six that finally permitted the import of harmful toxic waste . was put in charge of the operation which seem to have been set in stone. going to early is an adventure a half serb half italian with an a ray of passports and identities his name appears on several documents involving the shipment of toxic waste to africa is also spent about a dozen years in prison. he was another who enjoyed the confidence of the somali

president and witnessed the network's activities. go off and did you visit somalia in the molten times did you have any dealings with the early maybe. there's quite a few affair for five or six anyway it was even one who also rise to talks of ways to be sent to some other issues of secret also maybe. north no i don't think it was him the authorizations were. actually able to film. and yet in his dealings with italian businessmen only claim to have the full backing of the somali president including for radioactive waste the most dangerous of all. they. back down again.

for good measure. others that. tragedy are. faced with the damning evidence of the recording studio on a rarely console decides to spill the beans and the tray his former associates. he says marciano plan to hide the radioactive waste in huge container such as this one. these containers were to be buried in the jetty of a ports he was building in north mogadishu. italian authorities used amateur photos showing such metal containers being buried in the concrete as evidence. where they full of radioactive material a schedule an eclipse. today the port is out of bounds it is in the hands of al

qaeda is islamist militias. new economy it's yet to console eyes he had some serious problems i'm not sure maybe someone told him if you confess to this we can help you like it too much and after all the shit that arrives fully laden with waste out the coast of somalia it wasn't going to do enter a port in offload the barrels the barrels would just be dumped at sea nets it was the problem will be gentle up with. on a day that the journalist ilario al be was killed with a camera man in the streets mogadishu a white italian man was the first on the scene. he seems to know more about it than the others is none other than john carlos marciano.

sarika i arrived right afterwards and there was a lot of confusion i was upset. i thought it was a planned ambush because the core of the machine gunned down nine bullets i said to myself they should never have been in this place and then what they said and how they got to be here well my conscience is clear me when working with buffalo new york below progressivity our questions about the lp murder brought the interview to an end. boy cover for close enough why are you asking these questions you know no one has ever been charged with the murder of the lottery and i'll be i never know for trafficking ways. that they will get if you will the. italian authorities did eventually find a somali citizen guilty for the killing of the journalist has always proclaimed his innocence and many believe the case is still unresolved. any evidence from the

phone tapping of skag looneys network has been thrown out as invalid. none of the three men will be troubled as a tally in magistrates have never sent a team out into the fields to check the facts. in a village not far from milan live someone who has changed his mind about the toxic waste trade. someone who exposed a team that was preparing such an operation in africa. several has since retired from all activity and lives on the street where nobody asks questions. but for many years several job involved dumping poison into the poorest countries. discussion there. was the traffic in way spend a third from a war situation. the beyond me ideally yes it makes things easier if you richard

it's a cynical thing to say but it's true. for both of course for words. people already filled half of italy imagine an old map of the world with little flags. missing. and we're in africa laughing wherever there are serious problems are really bad so haiti in somalia places where political problems are particularly bad it's just business human life has no relevance whatsoever. one day in haiti where here some particularly dangerous waste several witnessed a scene that would change him forever. i was in charge of the ship i was stuck in the port and it was costing about two million lira a day a lot of money the faster i can offload the boat the better. pre-warned hoodie i

unloaded the containers usually cream the one on top of the other a girl come from them out one after another going there powering up everywhere but i don't care for me to leave two weeks later i saw the results just it was awful it was radioactive waste you see over. in the end separate decided to inform the powers that be what he was involved in. this would be a lot of after in the area lp was killed i decided i had to tell the authorities from all the process interviewed. several allied himself with the anti mafia division in milan and allowed the police to infiltrate his network. and network was connected to several celebrities of the international crime scene the police discovered that present within the organization was a certain moans are al custer.

months or sar is a flamboyant syrian who works for all sides is sold weapons to extreme right wing latin american groups on behalf of the americans. has armed iraq and the palestinians. according to a un security council inquiry made public in two thousand and three are has also sold weapons to the various armed militia and somalia. the weapons were shipped in boats belonging to the infamous shift go company in which allow area i'll be had expressed such an interest just before being killed. ten years later un officials confirm the young journalist suspicions. the boats were just used for fishing but for arms trafficking and probably toxic waste as well.

the way they paid off these militias who were very poor was to offer them weapons in exchange for dumping the toxic waste it was a win win situation for them if you would because you've got a young sister if you will it's only. after three years of investigation the anti mafia division of milan decided to terminate the infiltration operation as it was considered too dangerous to proceed on terror the more main door at a certain point the judicial authorities had to put in into the triple digits you know the dangers nature of members of the network we decided it was better to prioritize the safety of our men on the inside and. they look at authority the police. in two thousand and nine the u.s. arrested arms dealer al costs are given set up and thought he was selling arms to colombian guerrillas who turned out to be federal agents and he was sentenced to thirty years in prison.

before venturing into piracy the somali gangs have proclaimed themselves the nation's coast guards. their stated aim was to protect their season shoreline from toxic waste and illegal fishing. but today they are just pirates. and yet the fisherman who live alongside them every day defend their actions they have a different notion of what represents piracy. anyone can understand that thank you so much. if we poor poison where you live and there's no government to protect you the law. foreigners attack you move even you defend yourself you do all. along the somali coast a fleet of western war vessels hunt down the pirates several dozen of another already

being arrested to this day no action has been taken against any of the industries suspected of disposing talks of waste off the coast of east africa. the. world couldn't. bring you the latest in science technology from the ground.

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