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Rasta City vs The Muslims: Trinidad's Gang Wars and Abu Bakr's Attempted Coup
Rasta City vs The Muslims: Trinidad's Gang Wars and Abu Bakr's Attempted Coup
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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Mar 11, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In 1990, the tiny Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago saw the only attempted Islamic militant overthrow of a government in the Western Hemisphere. The coup led by Abu Bakr and his Jamaat Al Muslimeem followers failed, but many on the island see it as a turning point that has led the murder rate to increase by 400% over the last few decades. Now, a raging war between the Rasta City gang and the Muslims gang doesn't show sings of stopping as they battle over lucrative government contracts and the street drug trade.
Released:
Mar 11, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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