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rosesaylavee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-10-06 04:47 AM
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Our tax dollars at work
Sorry if this was posted earlier this week (June 5 news date) - I think I may have missed it with the many other 'news' happenings (ie Marriage Amendment, Annthrax, Bush Marriage Breakup, etc) :crazy:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/14747951.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

U.S. taxpayers financed human trafficking, report says

BY CAM SIMPSON
Chicago Tribune

WASHINGTON - For the first time since Congress mandated its annual publication, a State Department report cataloging human trafficking across the globe includes allegations that American taxpayers financed such abuses.

This year's Trafficking in Persons Report, released Monday, also ranks Iran among the 12 nations in the world with the worst records for limiting human trafficking within and across its borders, just as the Bush administration is attempting to bring pressure on Tehran because of its developing nuclear program.

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Human brokers and subcontractors from Asia to the Middle East have worked in concert to import thousands of laborers into Iraq from impoverished countries, often employing fraud or coercion along the way, seizing workers' passports and charging recruitment "fees" that make it difficult for workers to escape employment in the war zone.

U.S. military leaders in Iraq have acknowledged confirming widespread abuses against such workers, who are brought to Iraq to do menial labor on U.S. bases for contractors and subcontractors. Those businesses ultimately receive their checks from the U.S. government. The abuses corroborated by military investigators included violations of U.S. human-trafficking laws.




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