What, they took Summers' advice?
"On December 12, 1991, while serving as chief economist for the World Bank, Summers authored a private memo arguing that the bank should actively encourage the dumping of toxic waste in developing countries, particularly "under populated countries in Africa," which Summers described as "UNDER-polluted."
Also see: Independent UK: You are being lied to about pirates
Untold Stories about Somalia Pirates - European ships dump Nuclear Waste into Somalia Ocean
US accused of covert operations in Somalia
The Somali Pirates of Israel
"Panel says it can't block importation of nuclear waste" by Associated Press | April 14, 2009
SALT LAKE CITY - .... EnergySolutions of Salt Lake City is seeking a license to import up to 20,000 tons of low-level radioactive waste from Italy's shuttered nuclear power program. After processing in Tennessee, about 1,600 tons would be disposed of in the western Utah desert.
Matheson and Gordon are sponsoring a bill, which has yet to get a hearing, that would ban importation of low-level radioactive waste unless the nuclear material originated here or the waste was imported for a strategic national purpose. They contend that the country should restrict space at its dumps to domestic waste....
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