← Foreign Correspondent · Season 17

Pirateland

S17 · E15 · 28 Apr 2009 · 30 min

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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.