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Somali weapons scandal of 1990s rocks Latvia
Published: 26 March, 2010, 08:50
Edited: 28 March, 2010, 18:50
Hackers in Latvia claim the country was selling arms to Somalia in violation of a UN Security Council resolution. They say they obtained copies of documents proving a top Latvian official supplied weapons to pirates.
RT can do better than this! Ilaria Alpi and her cameraman Miran Hrovatin, were murdered because they were getting closer to the source of massive shipment of nuclear wastes from Western Europe, transported to Somalia by Italian Maffia. Her murder was ordered from Europe. Her murdder is an open case and day the truth of her murder and its relationship to EU dumping of clear waste inside Somalia will be revealed to the world. Also, please note that 1992, there were no "pirates" in Somalia. Little good research can clear up this confusion. Ilaria Alpi was killed because she uncovered the trail that linked smuggling weapons to warlords who in turn agreed to cover up dumping nuclear toxins inside Somali Indian Ocean waters. So, if you wish to explore who paid for these weapons, look ar her murder and its relationship to dumping of nuclear waste from Western Europe to Somalia after the 1991 fall of central authority in Somalia.
1991-1993 were times of euphoria and chaos in the Baltic republics where people who had to ability to steal would steal all they could and sell it overseas. This was called the "Gold Digging" times. Latvians sold weapons to Somalis; Israelis conned Estonians into buying old rusted sand clogged Russian weapons for their "army"; amoral Estonians conned the elderly out of their apartments and homes; and whole Soviet-era factories were torn apart and sold overseas as junk metal. Hurra for capitalism was heard throughout Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Not surprising at all that some enterprising Latvian would sell surplus Soviet weapons to the Somalis - one on else would buy them.