[fat city]

"...hundreds of thousands of Filipinos are working in Iraq and other Middle East countries..."

And 51 lousy troops to defend their interests??!!

[muawiyah]

One of this world's best known and highly organized scams involves Philippino men whose wives work abroad.

The men enjoy their days sitting in the coffee houses enjoying life on their wives' remittances.

My old secretary belongs to a group of Chinese-American (CBA & ABC) ladies who regularly identify and liberate indentured ladies from the Philippines in major cities in the United States.

She has some hair-raising tales about dealing with very dangerous foreign men keeping these women captive in their suburban Washington DC homes.

What's going on here is the Philippines government is afraid that their overseas workforce of indentured female servants and serfs will be sent back home by any returned Ba'athist government in Iraq. Last thing those guys in the coffee house want to see is momma back home!