Africans recruited to work in Iraq as cheap labor

[no safe haven]

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1307183.htm

AM - Monday, 21 February , 2005 08:24:00
Reporter: Zoe Daniel
TONY EASTLEY: As some firms pay westerners thousands of dollars a week to work in Iraq, there are people willing to go there for much, much, less.

A multinational recruitment company has set up in West Africa, recruiting Africans to work for as little $40 US a week working at US bases. The company is centred in Liberia, but is also recruiting staff from Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.

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ZOE DANIEL: Recruitment company ESS Support Services Worldwide plans to take on 750 workers from Sierra Leone. They'll be employed as cleaners and kitchen hands on military bases.

The salary is tiny compared to rates of between $5,000 and $30,000 a month for Westerners working in Iraq. But here people are desperate, and the deal sounds good to the likes of Sulaiman Koroma. He will leave his pregnant partner in Freetown if he gets the job.

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Looks like "freedom" is well and truly on the march. Words fail.

[jdots]

1. The neocons have done it again .

This is Bush's free market at it's worst.Now those retchs that made 5-30,000 $ a month are outsorced, like you said,words fail

[sandnsea]

2. Hey Hassan!

Wait until you get there and discover you're not making enough money to get out, but all the white boys are. Then what do you think you'll call it??

Can these people be any slimier? And then wonder why THEY FLY AIRPLANES INTO OUR BUILDINGS?????

Just beyond stupid.

[no safe haven]

3. Yep, looks like the neocon global empire

...is fixing to breathe new life into the old West African ‘Slave Coast’ trade.
(no disrespect intended to the descendants of those who took that grim middle passage)

[Solly Mack]

4. exploitation

crusty, cracked and oozing, slime ball scum-sucking pieces of shit
...just huge pus-pockets on humanity...that's all these profiteers & exploiters are....

[highnooner]

5. This means

that they are not able to get the locals to work on the bases. So much for helping the Iraqis economically.