How and why did a bunch of illiterate, dirt poor Africans transform themselves from simple cray-fishermen into the fearsome, gun-toting gangs mugging giant, sophisticated shipping off the coast of Somalia and gouging multi-million dollar ransoms?
Marauding foreign fishing fleets took their lobsters.
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Foreign Correspondent · Season 17 · Episode 15
How and why did a bunch of illiterate, dirt poor Africans transform themselves from simple cray-fishermen into the fearsome, gun-toting gangs mugging giant, sophisticated shipping off the coast of Somalia and gouging multi-million dollar ransoms?
Marauding foreign fishing fleets took their lobsters.
Marauding foreign fishing fleets took their lobsters.
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Season
17
Episode
15
Air Date
28/Apr/2009
Air Time
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Runtime
30 min
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