The few things I've read indicate that the Sicilian Mafia is behind a lot of the dumping - they get paid to dump waste b/c they can do it "cheaply". Can you point to some sources which indicate that U.S. concerns are involved in this activity? Furthermore, exclusive economic zone only extends 200 nautical miles out from the coast. Given Somalia's coastal length of 1,880 miles, that's about 432,400 square miles of sea. And yet articles like this: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gB7YMEDuCw... say that the danger zone is 1.1 million square miles large. How do you account for the discrepancy?
