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Episode 422: Il Polpo (Part 2) [preview]

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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To hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- Part 2. A look at the 1994 murders of journalists Illaria Alpi and Miran Hrovatin in Mogadishu points in a thousand directions: toxic waste and weapons smuggling, the mafia, Gladio, government cover-ups, and a global web of traffickers, pimps, and killers. Discover more episodes at podcast.trueanon.com

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0:00.0

Previously on Truenon, Il Popo.

0:05.0

Unfortunately, this story has ruined my life.

0:07.0

This sort of unsolved murder of this Italian journalist and our cameraman in the 90s.

0:13.0

Sometimes I think that podcasts are actually one of the worst ways in human history to convey complex information.

0:20.0

Somalia had been used as a dumping ground for hazardous waste since at least the early 90s.

0:25.0

And anyone who goes looking, all mysteriously turned up dead.

0:29.5

Okay, so my first question is, what?

0:31.4

So Somalia is in Africa?

0:33.2

A 32-year-old Italian journalist and her cameraman.

0:36.4

Potentially at the center of an illegal

0:38.1

weapons and waste trafficking line. A burst of gunshot fire, but miraculously, the higher

0:43.6

driver and bodyguard are unharmed. Warlords, armed brokers, European firms, British bank,

0:50.4

stay behind intelligence operations, the mafia and the CIA.

0:54.0

Mohamed Abdullah Hassan, aka the Madmullah.

0:57.6

Liz's favorites, the Portuguese.

1:00.8

And then Ethiopia is left independent, which annoys the Italians.

1:05.3

We've heard you've got some 12-year-old boys there.

1:07.6

It's a complicated situation.

1:08.7

If you're going to talk about the Italians for like 10 fucking more hours.

1:10.7

The Soviets get too frustrated and just end up pulling out completely.

1:14.6

Mussolini is like, fuck that.

1:16.6

It's hard for me to take something seriously when you name naval boats stromboli.

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