Human Trafficking in Iraq by Contractors

[partylessinOhio]

What will their excuse be for this? Are these jobs that Iraqis refuse to do shades of Mexicans in America?

How low can these Fristian Neocons take down the US?

Commander: Contractors violating U.S. trafficking laws
BY CAM SIMPSON
Chicago Tribune

WASHINGTON - The top U.S. commander in Iraq has ordered sweeping changes for privatized military support operations after confirming violations of human-trafficking laws and other abuses by contractors involving possibly thousands of foreign workers on American bases, according to records obtained by the Chicago Tribune.

Gen. George Casey ordered that contractors be required by May 1 to return passports that have been illegally confiscated from laborers on U.S. bases after determining that such practices violated U.S. laws against trafficking for forced or coerced labor. Human brokers and subcontractors from South Asia to the Middle East have worked together to import thousands of laborers into Iraq from impoverished countries.

Two memos obtained by the Tribune indicate that Casey's office concluded that the practice of confiscating passports from such workers was both widespread on American bases and in violation of the U.S. trafficking laws.

The memos, including an order dated April 4 and titled "Subject: Prevention of Trafficking in Persons in MNF-I," or Multinational Forces-Iraq, say the military also confirmed a host of other abuses during an inspection of contracting activities supporting the U.S. military in Iraq. They include deceptive hiring practices; excessive fees charged by overseas job brokers who lure workers into Iraq; substandard living conditions once laborers arrive; violations of Iraqi immigration laws; and a lack of mandatory "awareness training" on U.S. bases concerning human trafficking. ...

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[Selatius]

1. I call it "slavery" and the "slave trade"

Let's call a spade, a spade here.

If you want to become a capitalist war profiteer, then be honest with yourself.

[partylessinOhio]

2. The decider did it.

He has turned Iraq into Hades. Why is the rest of the world silent on what has been done in the name of once great America?

Why isn't the world coming to the rescue of the Hell in Iraq designed by *, Cheney and Rummy?