Mission Accomplished; Kidnaping, white slavery, & the sex trade in Iraq

[Botany]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1186558-1,00.html


YURI KOZYREV FOR TIME
SHROUDED: Amna, 18, says she was sent to work in brothels in three cities.
Stolen Away
As criminal gangs run amuck in Iraq, hundreds of girls have gone missing. Are they being sold for sex?
By BRIAN BENNETT/BAGHDAD

<Safah is part of a seldom-discussed aspect of the epidemic of kidnappings in Iraq: sex trafficking. No one knows how many young women have been kidnapped and sold since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. The Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq, based in Baghdad, estimates from anecdotal evidence that more than 2,000 Iraqi women have gone missing in that period. A Western official in Baghdad who monitors the status of women in Iraq thinks that figure may be inflated but admits that sex trafficking, virtually nonexistent under Saddam, has become a serious issue. The collapse of law and order and the absence of a stable government have allowed criminal gangs, alongside terrorists, to run amuck. 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 these girls. As a result, sex trafficking has been allowed to fester unchecked.>

So when is the Christian right going to get pissed?

[donsu]

1. kicking for justice for women

nt

[Roland99]

2. the "ex" trade? Can I send my ex-wife over there??

:)


BTW, this admin gave Saudi Arabia a free pass on human rights despite reports of a vibrant sex-slave trade.

[Taxloss]

7. Great minds ... n/t

[Roland99]

8. heh

and another kick.

[Botany]

11. opps

I would send my Ex but they have suffered enough.

[Taxloss]

3. The ex trade? Can I sell one of my exes?

Sorry, v poor taste I know, and this is a horrible story. That said, Iraq is hardly unique - Saudi and a couple of other ME countries have a slavery problem.

[Botany]

12. Want to trade exes?

Mine eats Ice Cream out of the carton with a fork.

Sweet!

[Taxloss]

14. Mine liked to call at 3am to ask "are you thinking of me?"

No. I was asleep. Now I'm thinking of you, but I don't think you'd like what I'm thinking.

[Roland99]

15. Mine has been unemployed for months and keeps calling me asking

for advice on what type of education she should consider.


:eyes:

[sasquatch]

4. "So when is the Christian right going to get pissed?"

UH DUH!! Who do you think is buying those sex slave?

[Taxloss]

5. Just as long as you follow the rules for slavery set out in Deuteronomy,

and elsewhere in the Bible, God doesn't mind.

[Sinti]

13. Unless you start capturing and enslaving their own

pretty white girls. Then they'll start to get a little peeved, methinks. They'll at least want some kickback at the top of the food chain.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. What else could possibly go wrong in Iraq?

[Taxloss]

9. An ebola outbreak?

Godzilla?

On the bright side, another school has been painted.

[Sinti]

10. It just makes them more like our "allies" in the ME

Plus, think about it, DynCorp is probably making quite a bit of pocket money on this fledgling business, like they did in Bosnia.

Small mention of the same in Salon
http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2002/08/06/dyncorp/

[ellenfl]

16. the christian right will not get pissed . . . these are muslim women. eom

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. When the insurgents were demanding the release of Iraqi women

from Abu Graib, how many of those women had been taken by people dressed as police, but working for the gangs?

[Tyler Durden]

18. Hey, It worked for RUSSIA.

We bankrupted Soviet Russia, so now they've got the right to starve, go without health care, be unemployed, JUST LIKE US!

Isn't this the successful exportation of American Values?