Mafia 'sank nuclear waste ship'

[BiLaaL]

One can only assume that this sort of practice happens regularly along our coast :mad: We are so consumed by events on land that we have forgotten about the irreparable damage being inflicted on our sea.

 

Mafia 'sank nuclear waste ship'

 

By Duncan Kennedy

BBC News, Italy

 

A shipwreck that could contain nuclear waste is being investigated by authorities in Italy amid claims that it was deliberately sunk by the mafia.

 

An informant told a judge the ship was one of a number he blew up as part of an illegal operation to bypass rules on the disposal of toxic waste.

 

The sunken vessel has been found 30km (18 miles) off the south-west of Italy.

 

Murky pictures taken by a robot camera show the vessel intact and alongside it are a number of yellow barrels.

 

Labels on them say the contents are toxic.

 

The informant said the mafia had muscled in on the lucrative business of nuclear waste disposal.

 

But he said that instead of getting rid of the material safely, he blew up the vessel out at sea, off the Calabrian coast.

 

He also says he was responsible for sinking two other ships containing toxic waste.

 

Experts are now examining samples taken from the wreck.

 

Other vessels

 

An official said that if the samples proved to be radioactive then a search for up to 30 other sunken vessels believed scuttled by the mafia would begin immediately.

 

For years there have been rumours that the mafia was sinking ships with nuclear and other waste on board, as part of a money-making racket.

 

The environmental campaign group Greenpeace and others have compiled lists over the past few decades of ships that have disappeared off the coast of Italy and Greece.

 

Processing waste is highly specialised and is supposed to be an industry where security is the top priority.

 

If tests show that there is nuclear material on the seabed it will prove that the mafia has moved into its dirtiest business yet.

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[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Masiibooyinka long-term ah waa waxaa ka naxsanahay dadkeena iyo dalkeenaba sugeyso. Runtii mar mar ka fikiraa geedihii sidii loo jaraaye waala dhameeye, which would result abaaro aan kala dhamaad lahayn, which the countries is already increasingly experiencing. And baddiina sun laga buuxiye, marka dadkeena masiibo weyn hadduu Eebba ka qabanin sugeyso, runtii.

 

Have you also noted or seen, Bilaaloow, ciyaalka ku dhasho Soomaaliya with their abnormal births of deformed bodies increasing? Their images are splashed across Soomaali sites, soliciting some help with Soomaalida dibadjooga. Call me paranoid, laakiinse I really, however, do believe there might be some link, those hazardous wastes buried under our seas and those increasing abnormal births.

 

Oh, don't make me also go on the expired medicines being dumped in Soomaaliya market, especially Soomaali xaasidiin ah u daran few dollars. So are expired foods those xaasidiin calooshood u shaqeystiyaal are importing.

[BiLaaL]

MMA, I agree. Abnormal births are increasing. As with every other tragedy relating to Somali – no one has bothered to investigate it. Sadly, there may be thousands of other children who’ve inherited similar deformities but haven’t developed the outward signs of it just yet.

 

These things will never get investigated by outside bodies.

 

It will be up to concerned Somalis with relevant expertise to take on this mammoth task. When this will materialise – I don’t know. What is certain is that we do not have much time left.

 

Expired, unfit medicine is yet another evil plaguing havoc in our country. Don’t start me on those profiting from it. Waxeey shaqeestaan ayagaa heli doono.