Sex traffic thrives in lawless Iraq

[deadparrot]

BAGHDAD, April 23 (UPI) -- Sex trafficking, almost non-existent under Saddam Hussein, reportedly has resurfaced in Iraq, where an estimated 2,000 women have gone missing since 2003.

The collapse of law and order and the absence of a stable government have allowed criminal gangs, alongside terrorists, to run amok, Time magazine reports.

Meanwhile, some aid workers say, bureaucrats in the ministries have either paralyzed with red tape or frozen the assets of charities that might have provided refuge for the girls.

The U.S. State Department's June 2005 trafficking report says the extent of the problem in Iraq is "difficult to appropriately gauge" but cites an unknown number of Iraqi women and girls being sent to Yemen, Syria, Jordan and Persian Gulf countries for sexual exploitation.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060423-115711-2597r

[Double T]

1. Will the human destruction ever end?

Not without regime change in Iraq...and specially the USA.

[file83]

20. The sex trade has been linked to KB&R and DynCorp in the past....

...I wonder if that "issue" hasn't been corrected.

Watch this video of Cynthia McKinney and Donald Rumsfeld talking about the human trafficking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RvLL--vSsA



Donald Rumsfeld says that the companies were put into the "penalty box" for awhile. So are we to assume that they are now "out of the penalty box" and have returned to their path of human trafficking?

[SammyBlue]

2. And the hits just keep coming. Where's the good news, Chimpy???

Where is this quick victory you promised us, asshole?

[joefree1]

3. This doesn't bode well for the bogus Fundie war on sex trafficking

Not that the fundies care, they're just looking for any opportunity to insert their suicide death cult morality.

Freedoms is on the march! :crazy:

[leftchick]

4. I can not help but think the US is profiting somehow from this

it only makes sense.

[jerry611]

5. We play a part in it by allowing it to happen

The Saudis have been selling women for decades....

We don't care just as long as they keep the oil coming. If we are going to allow the Saudis to do it, what makes you think we are going to care if this starts happening in Iraq?

[leftchick]

6. I don't think the US will care in the least

I just thought they would need a cut of the action as any crime syndicate would.

Welcome to DU!

:)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. Heck US contract workers were INVOLVED in it in Bosnia IIRC

Welcome to DU

[Binka]

19. Pug Winakor & Dyncorp!

Wanna know why Bush is always rambling on about sex rooms, sex trade, sex blah blah blah? Because it is one of his families business' that he understands. He is an expert at fucking people. Bastard. I hate him so fucking much.

[Minstrel Boy]

10. Did you see the US embassy in Azerbaijan is caught up in

a scandal of human trafficking, visa fraud and murder? Ambassador Reno Harnish was recalled at the end of last week.

[leftchick]

13. Oh yes!

That is why I have no doubt the US profiteers and human rights violators are in action in Iraq as well. :grr:

[jerry611]

17. There is absolutely no doubt of that

I'm sure there are some Americans that are players in this game. And yes, some of them are in government positions.

I was reading a story by an undercover reporter a few years ago that visited one of these brothels in South America (in Columbia I think it was). But he said that the people that go and pay for the sex and abuse the women are almost always big businessmen, people who are super-super rich, and politicians from various countries. And women that were lucky enough to escape it will tell you the same thing about who visits these places.

And this is why this problem is kept under the rug. It's only recently been put out in the open because human rights groups are finally starting to pay attention to it. But governments are ignoring it because they know many of their own officials are involved in it.

There are some very sick people in this world.

[cassiepriam]

8. Yes, all kinds of things are available on the Iraq black market.

For use in Iraq and elsewhere.

[Ezlivin]

9. Get proactive like South Carolina -- ban sex toys

That'd solve the problem, right?

Discussed at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2242223

[Branjor]

11. K & R

n/t

[ckramer]

12. As long as they are not President's daughters, what's the problem?

As Rummy said so lightheartedly, freedom comes with a price.


:-(

[pokercat999]

14. Maybe Ms Joplin was right, "Freedom's just

another word for nothing left to lose"

[Roland99]

15. Thrives in Saudi Arabia, too.

[DELUSIONAL]

16. Well didn't bush close the RAPE ROOMS?

I remember just after the invasion a dumb ass GOP whore tried to defend the invasion with "well he closed the rape rooms".

As always females are the ones who are victimized by the macho games that frat boys play.

If only an International court of law -- perhaps someday in the future long after we are all dead and the world has been trashed beyond recognition -- the remaining band of humans will go back to see what the F*** their ancestors did to screw up the world so badly. THEN they will put bushie and his crime gang on trial.

I grow increasingly skeptical that Karma exists for the truly evil, corrupt, soul-less idiots who now inhabit the white house.

[Bhaisahab]

18. sex trafficking "almost non-existent under Saddam Hussein"

but... but... the fucker had DUBYA EMM DEEES man. what's a few broken women when the land of the brave is finally rid of the threat from Saddam's balsa-wood mushroom cloud dispensers?

[DUHandle]

21. One of Husain's son's

had a nice stash of heroin and motorcycles to keep the "ladies" coming so if anything, I'd say same shit different day.