A looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. Best known to tourists for its beautiful beaches and dramatic coastline italian island of sardinia is also a Major Company that makes the rest of the locals the longer these tests of the toxic effect. For years the authorities have refuted those playing reporter Emma Alberici went to investigate. It. Because doesnt morale day is a magnet as for the rich and famous you need hosts the most beautiful beaches in the year. Its not hard to see what draws people to this place. Former Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi was one of the 1st to invest here. But ive come here to investigate the darkest side the coverups the secrets the mystery illnesses in the blocks of life on this glorious island for decades. The wealth of the north is a stark contrast to other parts of the island where visitors are forbidden. The saudis plays host to some of the worlds most elaborate wargamers like this one in 2015. Trident junction it was one of natos biggest exercises. Dozens of countries were involved in. The military exclusion zones cover more than a 3rd of sardinians land sea and air play rome is reported to be making one and a half 1000000. 00 a day renting out this space to Foreign Forces and weapons manufacturers. Down south that entire lotta the beaches are just as stunning but they mostly inaccessible. The reka family has been fishing in these waters for generations zimbabwes arabs are on their bare back lot of muslim or i guess i remember them or a couple of the manga given to the main guy. The western brands of gulf war they were rather rare what happens if you do. Nothing wrong about someone from really were there. The Italian Ministry of defense has deemed vast areas of the sea around sardinia off limits. Around their government on a minute barbara where marijuana annoy them really regret their ability for no apparent your name in the military and they are watching as. Most of the military operations on sardinia have been kept secret since 951. Theyre the result of an arrangement struck with nato countries after the 2nd world war. And if you go. To them in the other. Purely has made it his lifes mission to bust open this wall of silence. He was once the political leader of sardinia but even then he couldnt get access to see what was going on at the military bases on the morrow purely dida eventually get into the tie a lot of military side but only after he was elected to the federal parliament in raw and you were the no he was told they would be strictly no filming allowed. You mention imagining. That there was you going to find them out or. If i dont know if we knew from the afghan official. Despite the secrecy bits of information have started to leak out. In 2017 sardinia unhealthful far shes confirmed full fowls and 200 french made me laugh missiles arrived on the yacht. And over the 20 years to 2003 some were fired a town larger of course in egypt 30000000 was the regime you know. 11 lies here was this. Idea the rhythm and. The guidance systems of these milan missiles each carry 3 grams of radioactive thore. In heiling florian dust increases the risk of lung and pancreatic cancer. In the school but since you saw there is a lot of reason most of the good for that didnt go nice she was all she was but i think that. It was the summer that. The main concern for sardinians living close to the firing ranges isnt about damage to the land or restricted axes. Theyre worried the bomb residue might be killing will. Today or is saying goodbye to another of its citizens 59 year old mario drogo. As a young man he worked at the firing range. He died of lung cancer but he wasnt a smoker. Many of the people gathered here have been touched by cancer. Here share them with him most of them already in their church or they know they havent cheated a lot of their station by him or the show their limit their jobs under. The water column or more you dont see it i will get a lot of these its been decided to intervene to do our share not more from want to measure up i want to keep julie on joining and his friends blame the italian Defense Force for this suffering so searching that. The modern almost. Never found that the sort of the people to. Be a lot on your money to love what i. But when that job and it was that it. The Italian Military has always denied doing anything to hurt the people of the land all the animals of sardinia. Of bondi of pierce and her husband john carroll have been fighting the military through the courts for 10 years but a bit of the little birthday it will still be a little our listeners thought it was. Just. A vision of the past francesco pyrrhus did his National Service in thailand it in the late ninetys he took part in military exercises and his parents say he was ordered to pick up old shields with his bare hands. A few years later at the age of 27 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. His parents blame the armed forces whenever they fuck without throw in no matter what i meant there are many. About the truth. Of a general of the malheur. Only. With the. More. Difficult. This is the rubbish john carlos says built up in his sons leave. Their particles so small they can quickly pass through your lungs and into your body. Biomedical engineer anthony a to getit analyze francescos liver tissue the and she found nano particles of 7 different metals in the juma including crimea. Tungsten and titanium. Theres no Metals Industry around but these are all used by the arms industry. Dr gassy believes francesco was contaminated by dust from a big explosion icicle of. The cakes that made the colleague who were looking. For that for them in. The science of nano particles is still new but the World Health Organization says early signs show that fine material may be harmful to Public Health. The w. H. O. Is encouraging further research. Dr getting has consultant to for parliamentary inquiries that looked into the activities of the italian Defense Force it was that if you know said the out that. Im in a corner or no. Authority figure out the only real little bit you. Very. Much is so. So that is. You know im in. This field. Its a 2 hour drive heading north out of town larder to the queerer bombing range. This is the scene of Tragic Health stories and mysterious birth defects that have come to be dumped the queerest syndrome. For many here life is still slow and traditional. But it sounds like a skull a plateau perched on the edge of the firing range. Zarin flying. To see the children to see more to agree that he quit because of food. Or disorder. But the much. Larger but this will be cut but i want to get the query. Is the biggest military test site in europe. Its used by nice countries as well as israel. Those living nearby have known of much tragedy. Dr gassy has become an advocate for some of the people of queerer. Maria teresa already had 10 healthy children when her last child arrived in 1988. The baby girl was born so severely deformed her mother has never let her photo be saying. She was baptized maria grassy or she was blind and couldnt move or speak i think thats. Part. Of what my. Skull apply no symmetry is a sad testament. One in 4 of the children born in the same year as maria ground 0 had some kind of deformity. Come into the mother. And spoken into the heart of combat. The banker said the money about your money i dont know if you know. John pierre osgar new has tried to hold the military to account he led a 2 year parliamentary inquiry. And his committee met fierce resistance from the chiefs of defense. Central level of for that achieve their cause and were truly on the 4th of. May poorly going to support they were further queer looking. But come on chad and this from control. Weve made repeated attempts to speak to the military during our search for this story but weve been blocked at every turn now this document dated 2011 has come our way its a confidential ministry of defense memo instructing military officials on how to respond to questions about the health and environmental conditions in and around the bombing sites what stands out is what they told to cite about birth defects they told to explain it away with a shocking allegation that children born with deformities of the result of inbreeding not the face of the leader. This is general fabio maltin a former head of the queer a base hes cool francois t. V. Delivery that came a siege. By a passing game i actually believe that in egypt in the world are probably giving a lot of families theres no evidence to support that climb. The children born with disabilities were conceived in the late eightys when old munitions. And rockets were being routinely despise dolls and queers that were blown up in a peach 20 meters deep and 40 meters wide. That. It got comical and are already in a. Decades dust from explosions and tests has rained down on the towns and the grazing fields of the firing range. Exactly what was in them no one knows. In nearly 2000 local doctors saw a spike in the number of unusual cancers in their patients. At the same time over in florence military pilot dominican jiro was raising his concerns. Hed say no high incidence of cancers among fellow soldiers returning from kosovo where they had been exposed to depleted uranium. Star mope around the good of. The its an internet so that its not going to know if were going to be perfect or intervene youre Getting Better like 2030 minutes and i mean to explore so again we dont see. This 3 main. War nobody going to sadly know not. Yet are immune to the may not respect the. Group if you will be jack. The Italian Military felt the pressure. Depleted uranium is mildly radioactive and long suspected of causing cancer and birth defects. Its used to hear. Missiles penetrate. At queerer scientist francesco recombine i was flying in by the ministry of defense to do some soil in front of a swarm of local media. For some more of us are going to convince your friends will remember for the rest of. The debug movie and all of venom around 40. 00 for the monitor. Is a little Francesco Riccobono i didnt find any depleted uranium keeping quiet about the possible presence of thore im defense declared the firing range clear. To the sunni had never run in but after a bit of. Market pull you are not evil you any less of the year so nobodys going to miss you not one of the line i took you did you grow it in a. Monkey there look you know i was truly received with its a disgrace to. My work. Then in 2010 events took a shocking turn. The photos youre about to see are disturbing. A land born with one. Others with deformities the likes and severity of which scientists and Public Health experts had never seen before. We spoke with only about doric. They dont. Want to know the worst that mother got better youre the man they kick. They. Then. Get along better with the money for them or. Believe. Georgia mehlis corrosion report for the district helpful farsi assessing the risks posed by the bombing range. Remarkably the team of scientists found 65 percent of the shepherds living close to the range had cancers that if we were in a new bleed on the brain sort of more. We bomb more. Of them into polluted bit of. The bed. But it. Was the only main. Main. In more. Immediately a formal Police Investigation was launched the Court Ordered the exhumation of 18 shipments who died in the 20 years up to 2010 year. Bonds were shipped here to easily snow and examined at 2 universities. Nuclear physicist vandross seanie led some of that research. Into this will go. To analyse. And in the car for. The. Few. Those 11 shepherds with high levels of thore and nearby had all lived close to the firing range. Or more of the shore dog in that it guard your my jaw. Up and saying theyre. In the regional capital lana say the chief prosecutor called a meeting with the scientist who dumped the soil testing to the military. Why hadnt research of francesco rico bono found any ranney im all the much more dangerous story im in the soil and we are. While he was questioned up steves outside police opened his car and he did a listening device inside. As he drove back to the airport the bug picked up his conversation with an assistant. Hed been interrogated for leaving thore and words out of his record and he was angry with the military this age gone with dont go the ones who commissioned us to do this work that if you thought that was important if youre honest you say to me make sure to include it because its important to. Francesco rico bonos university received a 2400000. 00 government grant to carry out its work. He was later acquitted of charges that he was involved in a cover up. Morrow pili is still convinced of foul play. Course like then the facets that will beat the roy and the. Ball. In so many things i thought. Im being. 8 former commanders at queerer and now on trial charged with breaching the duty of care for the health and safety of soldiers and civilians only one of them is fabio tenney infamously caught on film climbing sardinians in bridge a school another is Paolo Ritchie who had declared queerer iranian free little business but it really really after 2 decades and 3 previous inconclusive inquiries last g. And john pieros garner his committee made a bold finding and of course trying to mentor for a month or less is the incessant biana during the new mess so the cozily. Lecture 30 suppose its on the lower than informally dont they live but gee i didnt check the name in it that a quest will not get the media. For the 1st time nano particles of depleted uranium were found to play a role in the possible development of cheap. Crucially for ian when in high old or in just it was found to be 5 times more dangerous than depleted uranium. The scanner report was dismissed by the italian Defense Force. And they refer to your credit in the letter a letter on the for. The love your president for an element that says that the script elevated that. But after all that work by the commission a new law to monitor the health of soldiers was blocked by the upper house in russia. For decades sardinia has held its secrets close. Its been locked in an uncomfortable embrace with the worlds military. In a country mired in debt defense contracts are a source of income but also quite possibly the cause of untold misery. After all the inquiries and with military brass now on trial for the people of this island paradise there is a glimmer of hope that the truth my finally see the light of day. They come in hope and in search of work to provide a better life for the families theyve left behind. But though their labor is vital to release Food Industry they risk exploitation by corporations and organized crime. 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