I'll spell it out a little clearer for you so you can try to grasp it.

1. European hazardous waste removal - extremely expensive with environmental beauracracy making it even moreso.

2. Dumping it in the waters of a third world nation with little to none international representation and avenues of recourse - very cheap.

3. Insinuating that those who look into the facts a little deeper than a 15 second blurp on the 30 minute nightly news hold to a conspiracy of destroying freedom lovers in Somalia - Priceless. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

Speaking of the UN... Nick Nuttall - spokesman for UN Environment Programme:

"Somalia has been used as a dumping ground for hazardous waste starting in the early 1990s, and continuing through the civil war there,ö he said.

ôEuropean companies found it to be very cheap to get rid of the waste, costing as little as $2.50 a tonne, where waste disposal costs in Europe are something like $1000 a tonne.

ôAnd the waste is many different kinds. There is uranium radioactive waste. There is lead, and heavy metals like cadmium and mercury. There is also industrial waste, and there are hospital wastes, chemical wastes û you name it.ö