US State Dept Trafficking (Human Trafficking) in Persons Reports

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency estimates that 50,000 people are trafficked into or transited through the U.S.A. annually as sex slaves, domestics, garment, and agricultural slaves [iAbolish Fact Sheet]

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT EFFORTS [US State Dept Trafficking in Persons Reports, June 2005]

The U.S. Government condemns trafficking in persons and remains firmly committed to fighting this scourge and protecting victims who fall prey to traffickers. Our commitment to eradicate trafficking includes:

* Vigorously enforcing U.S. laws against those who traffic in persons; * Raising awareness about human trafficking and how it can be eradicated; * Identifying, protecting, and assisting victims exploited by traffickers; * Reducing the vulnerability of individuals to trafficking through increased education, economic opportunity, and protection and promotion of human rights; and * Employing diplomatic and foreign policy tools to encourage other nations, the UN, and other multilateral institutions to work with us to combat this crime, draft and enforce laws against trafficking, and hold traffickers accountable.

A compendium of these actions is compiled each year in the Assessment of U.S. Government Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons, which can be found online at www.usdoj.gov/trafficking.htm. This assessment highlights executive branch efforts to end modern-day slavery and makes recommendations for improvements in our efforts over the next year.

An important aspect of the U.S. effort is to strengthen law enforcement’s ability to investigate, prosecute, and punish violent crimes committed against children, including child sex tourism and the commercial sexual exploitation of children. The PROTECT Act (Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003) was passed by the Congress in April 2003 and signed into law by President Bush. The act serves as a historic milestone for protecting children while severely punishing those who victimize young people. Of particular note, the PROTECT Act allows law enforcement officers to prosecute American citizens and legal permanent residents who travel abroad and commercially sexually abuse minors without having to prove prior intent to commit this crime. The law also strengthens the punishment of these child sex tourists. If convicted, child sex tourists now face up to 30 years’ imprisonment, an increase from the previous maximum of 15 years.

The PROTECT Act made several other changes to the law with a focus on protecting children from sexual predators, including: extending the statute of limitations for federal crimes involving the abduction or physical or sexual abuse of a child for the lifetime of the child; expanding the potential reach of federal sex trafficking prosecutions by extending federal jurisdiction to crimes committed in foreign commerce; establishing parallel penalty enhancements for the production of child pornography overseas; and, criminalizing actions to arrange or facilitate the travel of child sex tourists.

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-386) and the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (P.L. 108-193) provide tools to combat trafficking in persons worldwide. The act authorizes the establishment of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons to assist in the coordination of anti-trafficking efforts.

The State Department’s TIP Office is mandated to combat and eradicate human trafficking by focusing worldwide attention on the international slave trade; assisting countries to eliminate trafficking in persons; promoting regional and bilateral cooperation; and supporting service providers and NGOs active in trafficking prevention and victim protection efforts. The TIP Office also assists foreign governments in drafting or strengthening anti-trafficking laws and funds law enforcement and victim assistance training to foreign governments to ensure traffickers are fully investigated and prosecuted to final conviction.

The TIP Office supported more than 50 anti-trafficking programs abroad in fiscal year 2004. The types of assistance offered included economic alternative programs for vulnerable groups; education programs; training for government officials and medical personnel; development or improvement of anti-trafficking laws; provision of equipment for law enforcement; establishment or renovation of shelters, crisis centers, or safe houses for victims; support for voluntary and humane return and reintegration assistance for victims; deterrence projects to address the demand for sex trafficking; and support for psychological, legal, medical and counseling services for victims provided by NGOs, international organizations and governments.

The State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) promotes orderly and humane migration, protects the human rights of vulnerable migrants, and provides assistance to migrants in need, especially victims of trafficking in persons. The Bureau supports anti-trafficking programs focusing on victim protection.

In fiscal year 2004, PRM provided over $5 million for anti-trafficking initiatives overseas carried out by the Bureau’s implementing partner, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and IOM’s partner NGOs. Specific activities included repatriation and reintegration assistance for victims; capacity-building to raise awareness, helping national governments manage migration and provide care for victims; and training non-governmental organizations to provide assistance to victims, including mental health care. With PRM support, IOM developed several training modules on related anti-trafficking activities, which were piloted in the Caribbean, in Indonesia, and in Southern Africa over the past year. Additionally, PRM and IOM launched a pilot project to provide logistical and reunification assistance for family members of trafficking victims in the United States who are eligible to come to the United States on a T-2, T-3, or T-4 visa. This project also offers to assist trafficking victims in the United States who wish to return and reintegrate in their home country.

The TVPA commits U.S. federal agencies to implement programs to protect and assist victims of human trafficking and to capture and prosecute their traffickers.

The success of U.S. Government efforts to combat trafficking in persons centers on protecting and assisting victims. To this end, the TVPA mandates that federally funded or administered benefits and services, such as cash assistance, medical care, food stamps, and housing, be made available for certain non-citizen trafficking victims.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides certification and eligibility letters for victims that allow them to access most benefits and services comparable to the assistance provided to refugees. These benefits and services include access to social service programs and immigration assistance needed to help victims safely and securely rebuild their lives in the United States. Trafficking victims also are eligible to receive food stamps through the Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service.

From April 2004 and March 2005, HHS identified 228 victims, more than double the 108 victims identified the previous year. In fiscal year 2004, HHS issued 163 letters on behalf of victims, of which 144 were certification letters to adults and 19 were eligibility letters to minors. These certification and eligibility letters, combined with the 151 letters issued in fiscal year 2003, the 99 letters issued in fiscal year 2002, and the 198 letters issued in fiscal year 2001, bring to 611 the total number of letters issued during the first four fiscal years in which the program has operated.

HHS also operates a trafficking information and referral hotline. The hotline allows victims and others persons encountering a victim of trafficking to call a national toll-free number (888-3737-888) to obtain a referral to a local organization serving the victims of trafficking and also to obtain advice on discerning a case of human trafficking. Since April 2004, the hotline has received more than 2,000 calls.

In April 2004, HHS launched its Rescue and Restore Victims of Human Trafficking public awareness campaign for the purpose of increasing awareness of human trafficking, particularly among intermediaries. Local anti-trafficking coalitions were convened in ten cities to help disseminate the campaign materials to appropriate intermediaries and to sustain local activism on the trafficking issue. As part of the Rescue and Restore campaign, a Web-based resource was established; through the end of fiscal year 2004, roughly 40,000 people had visited www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking. The theme of the campaign is "Look Beneath the Surface" in order to communicate that intermediaries may be encountering victims in their daily lives and that they need to look beyond the obvious, asking specific questions or noting certain behaviors of those who may be potential victims.

The goal of the Rescue and Restore campaign is to increase the number of trafficking victims identified. Campaign efforts focus on outreach to intermediaries most likely encounter trafficking victims on a daily basis, but who may not otherwise recognize them. The campaign educates these groups about human trafficking, thus enabling them to screen for trafficking victims and equipping them with tools to assist victims in accessing benefits and services. These intermediaries include local law enforcement; social service providers; health care workers; faith-based organizations; migrant and labor outreach organizations; child and homeless youth advocates and caregivers; and ethnic organizations.

HHS also provides funding to organizations to aid with trafficking-related matters. In fiscal year 2004, HHS awarded approximately $3.37 million in second-year continuation grants to the 14 organizations awarded grants in fiscal year 2002. Additionally, HHS announced new special outreach grants to help identify trafficking victims and a number of other outreach campaigns aimed at increasing awareness in communities of trafficking in persons.

The Department of Justice also met immediate needs of victims of trafficking in persons through witness assistance programs and services provided by the grantees of the Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). In January 2003, OVC awarded 12 grants totaling more than $9.5 million to NGOs for the purposes of providing trafficking victims with comprehensive or specialized services and to provide these grantees with training and technical assistance for program support. From January through December 2004, OVC awarded ten additional grants totaling more than $5.5 million to expand provision of comprehensive services to victims of human trafficking. OVC administers a total of 18 comprehensive services grants, three supplemental/specialized services grants, and one technical assistance grant.

Comprehensive services grants provide direct services to meet the broad range of needs of trafficking victims, including case management; legal advocacy; medical, dental, and mental health services; shelter; and access to a broad range of job skills training, education, and other social services.

Supplemental or specialized services grants provide a quickly mobilized single service over a broad geographical area, such as housing, legal assistance, and mental health assessment and crisis intervention.

OVC grantees have served a total of 557 victims of human trafficking since the inception of the program in January 2003. OVC grantees also have provided substantive training on trafficking to 24,600 people, including law enforcement officials, prosecutors, civil attorneys, social service providers, physicians, clergy, and other members of their communities. Training topics include the dynamics of trafficking, the legal definition of trafficking under the TVPA, legal rights and services for trafficking victims, and cultural considerations in serving these victims.

Victims of trafficking often need legal assistance with immigration and other matters. Since the passage of the TVPA, the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) must make available legal assistance to trafficking victims. The LSC is a private, non-profit corporation established by Congress to fund legal aid programs around the nation to help indigent Americans gain equal access to the civil justice system. In fiscal year 2004, eight LSC grantees assisted 170 trafficking victims.

There are two immigration benefits available through the TVPA to trafficking victims who meet certain eligibility requirements. Victims may be authorized "continued presence" to temporarily remain in the United States if federal law enforcement determines they are potential witnesses to trafficking.

Victims also may petition the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services within the Department of Homeland Security to receive T visas, which are available to victims who have complied with reasonable requests for assistance to investigate or prosecute acts of trafficking. Victims who receive T non-immigrant status may remain in the United States for three years and then apply for permanent residency.

In fiscal year 2004, the Department of Homeland Security’s Vermont Service Center received 520 applications for T non-immigrant status, approved 136, denied 292, and continues to consider 92. Once a trafficking victim has held T non-immigrant status for three years, he or she may apply to adjust status; the first T non-immigrant status recipients will become eligible to adjust status beginning in 2005. The United States is one of the few countries that offers the possibility of permanent residency to victims of trafficking.

In the past four fiscal years (2001-2004), the Department of Justice has initiated more than three times the number of investigations (340 vs. 106), filed almost four times as many cases (60 vs. 16), charged more than twice as many defendants (162 vs. 69), and doubled the number of defendants convicted (118 vs. 59) than in the prior four year period.

In fiscal year 2004, the Department of Justice initiated prosecutions against 59 traffickers, the highest number ever charged in a single year. More than half of those defendants (32) were charged with violations under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and all of those cases involved sexual exploitation.

An example of a U.S. Government investigation and prosecution is the case of United States v. Carreto, et al. As the result of an investigation based initially upon information from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, six defendants have been charged with forced labor and organizing and operating a trafficking ring that smuggled Mexican women and girls into the United States and forced them into prostitution in Queens and Brooklyn, New York. The defendants, most of whom are related to each other, come from a small town in south-central Mexico. They recruited young, impoverished women in Mexico by forming romantic relationships with them, with the ultimate goals of smuggling them into the United States and forcing them into prostitution. Once in the United States, the women were beaten and threatened to keep them working. Proceeds from prostitution were taken by the defendants and wire transferred to the defendants’ family in Mexico. Three defendants have pleaded guilty to trafficking charges, and a trial is pending as to the remaining defendants.

Another example is the case of United States v. Rojas. In this case, three brothers, using pseudonyms, engaged in a sex trafficking scheme to seduce young Mexican women and girls and lure them to the United States with promises of gainful employment. The defendants smuggled the victims from Mexico to the Atlanta metropolitan area and then forced them into prostitution through a combination of psychological coercion, threats, and physical abuse. Upon their arrival in the United States, the victims were told never to leave the apartment. The defendants threatened to call the victims’ parents and tell them the girls were working as prostitutes, and threatened to abandon the girls without money or support. Thereafter, the victims were made to work nearly every night of the week, used in prostitution by upwards of 20 men per night. Arrangements were made for the girls to be taken to various apartments by taxi drivers. At the end of each night, the taxi driver would keep half the money earned, and the defendant brothers would keep the other half. The defendants were charged with conspiracy, sex trafficking, importing and harboring aliens for the purpose of prostitution, alien smuggling, and interstate transportation of illegal aliens. Two brothers pleaded guilty in 2004 and were sentenced to 71 months and 57 months in prison. The third brother fled and is now a fugitive.

The U.S. Department of Justice also led a comprehensive initiative to form 20 multi-disciplinary task forces led by U.S. attorneys in various cities across the country to address trafficking in areas of known concentration. Under this initiative, the Department of Justice and its partners, the Departments of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security, have formed, trained, equipped, and funded teams of state, local, and federal law enforcement, prosecutors, and victim services providers in a coordinated and proactive effort to investigate criminal organizations, rescue victims, and hold perpetrators accountable.

An essential part of the initiative was the convening of a national training conference called Human Trafficking into the United States: Rescuing Women and Children from Slavery, held July 14-16, 2004, in Tampa, Florida. Hosted by the Justice Department, the conference brought together more than 500 attendees composed of 21 teams of about 20 state, local, and federal officials who could work together to combat human trafficking in their respective communities across America. President Bush joined Attorney General John Ashcroft and other senior Bush Administration officials at the conference.

Teams came from 21 municipalities across the United States. The teams learned how to uncover and investigate cases, as well as how to provide services to trafficking victims. The conference emphasized the importance of combating trafficking using a victim-centered approach that requires proactive law enforcement strategies and an understanding of the collaborative approach to human trafficking that includes community members, first responders, restorative care service providers, victim advocates, as well as state, local, and federal law enforcement.

The next step of the initiative was to follow up with attendees, conduct initial task force meetings, provide additional training, and make an announcement of the newly formed task force. Between June and December, task forces were formed in Philadelphia; Atlanta; Phoenix; New Jersey; Northern Virginia; Connecticut; San Francisco; Houston; St. Louis; Tampa; Miami; Orlando; Washington, D.C.; Portland; Albuquerque; Seattle; Las Vegas; San Antonio; El Paso; Los Angeles; and New York.

The final step, initially announced at the national conference by the Attorney General, was the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and its Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) award of $7,674,614 to 18 communities to participate in the newly formed multi-disciplinary task forces to address the problem of human trafficking and rescue its victims. These 18 communities were among those identified by the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division as having a high number of trafficking operations and victims. These local law enforcement task forces will join forces with victim service providers, as well as with the local U.S. attorneys and other federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security’s Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to identify and rescue trafficking victims, including women and children. Applicants were specifically encouraged to partner with service providers supported by existing grants from the OVC or Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement. In early 2005, BJA plans to add three jurisdictions to this list, making the number of funded task forces 21. In turn, OVC, working in partnership with BJA, will make awards to develop victim services at task force sites with insufficient capacity.

All of the task forces are operational, and many have initiated important investigations.

In July 2004, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Attorney General established the interagency Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center. To emphasize its importance, the Center was established under Section 7202 of the Intelligence Reform Act and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. The Center will achieve greater integration and overall effectiveness in the U.S. Government’s enforcement and other response efforts, and work with other governments to address the separate but related issues of alien smuggling, trafficking in persons, and smuggler support of clandestine terrorist travel.

The ideal way to combat trafficking is to prevent the victimization of people in the first place. Because the United States is a destination country for trafficked people, prevention activities in which the U.S. Government engages abroad are particularly important.

Through the State Department, the Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs, and the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Government offers a substantial amount of international assistance to help prevent trafficking in persons and to improve the treatment of victims and the prosecution of traffickers abroad. The State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons also is piloting programs to address the demand for victims of sex trafficking in Mexico, India, Cambodia, Costa Rica, and Thailand.

In fiscal year 2004, the U.S. Government supported approximately 251 international anti-trafficking programs totaling $96 million and benefiting more than 86 countries. This amount reflects part of President Bush’s anti-trafficking initiative announced at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2003. The Government of the United States has invested approximately $295 million in anti-trafficking efforts over the last four fiscal years. These international programs run the gamut from small projects to large multi-million-dollar projects to develop comprehensive regional and national strategies to combat trafficking, improve law enforcement capacity to arrest and prosecute traffickers, enhance support to victims of trafficking, and increase awareness of at-risk populations and policy makers to trafficking.

Based on U.S. Government findings over many years of international development work, assistance that has had a positive impact on anti-trafficking efforts includes: development or improvement of anti-trafficking laws; provision of equipment for law enforcement; economic alternative programs for vulnerable groups; education programs addressing both the supply and demand sides of trafficking in persons; training for government officials and medical personnel; anti-corruption measures; establishment or renovation of shelters, crisis centers, or safe-houses for victims; establishment of hotlines, support for voluntary and humane return and reintegration assistance for victims; and support for psychological, legal, medical, and counseling services for victims provided by NGOs, international organizations, and governments.

The Department of Labor publishes an annual report mandated by the Trade and Development Act of 2000 on efforts governments are taking to meet their international commitments to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, including the trafficking of children for exploitative labor and commercial sexual exploitation. The Trade and Development Act (TDA) added government efforts to address the worst forms of child labor to the list of criteria countries must fulfill to receive trade benefits under the Generalized System of Preferences, the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act, and the African Growth and Opportunity Act. The TDA Report released in 2004 chronicled the nature and incidence of the worst forms of child labor and government efforts to combat this problem in more than 140 countries and territories.

The U.S. Government engages internationally through cooperation with countries that support the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, which supplements the UN Convention Against Transnational and Organized Crime, adopted by the UN General Assembly in November 2000. The United States signed the Convention and Protocol in December 2000, and the President has submitted them to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification.

Three other international instruments that address the trafficking in children have been adopted — ILO Convention 182 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor (which the United States ratified in February 1999); the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (which the United States ratified in December 2002); and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (which the United States ratified in December 2002). The Department of Labor works with the ILO to bring international attention to countries’ obligations under ILO Convention 150, the Abolition of Forced Labor, as well.

NGOs have been vital to the U.S. effort to identify and help trafficking victims as well as to prosecute trafficking cases. The U.S. Government engages in extensive outreach to NGOs, which are often the first point of contact with trafficking victims. These contacts foster constructive relationships with groups that receive and shelter trafficking victims and are often in a position to encourage victims to come forward and report abuse. Additionally, in those situations in which law enforcement is actively involved in liberating victims from servitude, some NGOs can provide safe houses for the victims.

U.S. Government personnel have been working closely with NGOs across the country to train service providers on the provisions of the TVPA. Through such training, federal prosecutors, Federal Bureau of Investigation and ICE agents, immigration officials and Health and Human Services’ personnel have learned about potential new cases, acquired NGO assistance in procuring refuge and support for trafficking victims, educated NGOs on the requirements for identifying a victim of a severe form of trafficking, and trained service providers on the roles they can play to contribute toward the success of a trafficking investigation and prosecution.

The Department of Labor’s International Child Labor Program and the Office of Foreign Relations supported a number of efforts in fiscal year 2004 through nongovernmental and faith-based organizations, as well as the International Labor Organization’s International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor, that address trafficking in persons in 16 countries, either as the central focus of the project or a component of a broader project. These projects provide reintegration assistance to adult and child victims of trafficking for exploitive work situations. Project support includes enrollment possibilities in appropriate educational and vocational training programs, and linking adults to legitimate work through partnerships with local employers. Projects promote legislative and policy reform to address trafficking in persons at the local, national, and regional levels.

In the United States, DOL’s Employment and Training Administration provides job training grants to states and localities, which may be used to assist victims of severe forms of trafficking regardless of individuals’ immigration status. These grants provide job search assistance, career counseling, occupational skills training, and supportive services to eligible participants.

The DOL’s Wage and Hour Division is taking aggressive action to identify and eliminate abusive labor practices that affect the most vulnerable in our society. Investigators focus on low-wage industries where labor trafficking victims are most often found. And Wage and Hour staff works with the consulates of Mexico and other countries, along with NGOs, to reach out to immigrant communities.

In February 2002, President Bush established a Cabinet-level Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. The task force is chaired by the Secretary of State and includes the Attorney General, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of Central Intelligence, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

The Task Force’s responsibilities include coordination and implementation of the Administration’s anti-trafficking activities. In December 2003, the Task Force approved the formal establishment of the Senior Policy Operating Group on Trafficking in Persons (SPOG), chaired by the director of the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. The purpose of the SPOG is to bring together senior policy officials from task force member agencies. This year the SPOG was responsible for a number of interagency policy developments including:

* Development and implementation of interagency grant policy and coordination guidelines to help implement the National Security Presidential Directive on trafficking in persons; * Coordination of public outreach and research efforts, including bringing attention to the dangers of trafficking in persons in South and Southeast Asia following the tsunami disaster; and; * Coordination of the President’s $50 million anti-trafficking initiative.

Federal Grand Jury Indicts 12 for Marriage Fraud, International Alien Smuggling

4 Illegal Aliens Sentenced to Prison for Alien Smuggling

Three Men Charged With Harboring Illegal Aliens in Henderson Home

South Bay Man Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Aliens and Tropical Fish Into United States

ICE Agents Arrest 4 Smugglers Connected to Alien’s Death

2 Men Sentenced for Human Smuggling

Three Alien Smugglers Sentenced for Hostage Taking

Guatemalan Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Transport Illegal Aliens, Illegally Re-entering U.S.

4 Mexican Smugglers Sentenced to Prison

Illgal Alien Sentenced to 21 Months for Transporting Illegal Aliens

Two Mexican Men Sentenced to 6½ Years for Transporting Illegal Aliens Resulting in Two Deaths

10 Charged in International Human Smuggling Ring That Lured Young Honduran Women to U.S. for Forced Labor

24 Indicted in Korean Human Smuggling Scheme That Brought Prostitutes Into the United States

Two U.S. Citizens Charged With Smuggling Five-Year-Old

29 Charged in Connection with Alien Harboring Conspiracy

ICE Arrests 6 Smugglers, 88 Illegal Aliens During Weekend

Mexican Smuggler Sentenced to 12½ Years in Prison for Dragging a Man to Death

Two Charged Criminally in ICE Human Smuggling Case

ICE Arrests Alleged Illegal Alien Smuggler

U.S. Charges Four in Extensive International Alien Smuggling Operation

29 Smuggled Chinese Arrested at the Port of Los Angeles

ICE Arrests 19-Year-Old on Alien Smuggling Charges

Two Charged Criminally for Alien Smuggling

Wisconsin Couple Indicted on Human Trafficking Charges

ICE Investigation Leads to Indictment of Three Men in Human Smuggling Conspiracy

Human Trafficking

Human Smuggling and Trafficking Unit
ICE strategic priorities of border security and immigration enforcement allow for an unprecedented and comprehensive law enforcement approach to address the scourge of human trafficking, both domestically and internationally. ICE has a Human Smuggling and Trafficking Unit dedicated to human trafficking investigations where adults and children are being recruited, transported and forced into involuntary servitude, including prostitution or other types of forced labor. ICE specifically targets human traffickers and sex tourists, among others, who exploit children. ICE’s aggressive enforcement of the recently enacted PROTECT Act helps prevent children from being sexually abused and lessens the demand for internationally trafficked children. ICE made the first six arrests under the sex tourism provisions of the PROTECT Act.

The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000
provides victims of severe forms of trafficking access to a wide range of benefits and services, such as information about their rights, referral for counseling, medical services, legal assistance, food, housing, and victim restitution. ICE Victim Witness Coordinators, in partnership with the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services, focus on providing that assistance to the victims of trafficking ICE agents identify during their investigations.

House Committee on Financial Services: Addressing the Demand for Trafficking

BUSH ADMINISTRATION HOSTS FIRST NATIONAL TRAINING CONFERENCE TO COMBAT HUMAN TRAFFICKING

President George W. Bush And Attorney General John Ashcroft Address Conference

TAMPA - Today, President Bush joined Attorney General Ashcroft and other senior Bush Administration officials at the first-ever national training conference on human trafficking: Human Trafficking into the United States: Rescuing Women and Children from Slavery. Hosted by the Justice Department, the conference brought together over 500 attendees, comprised of the hundreds of state, local and federal officials who work together to combat human trafficking in communities across America. Trafficking in persons, a modern day form of slavery, is a serious problem in the United States and throughout the world. Each year, an estimated 600,000-800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked against their will across international borders. Of those, 14,500-17,500 are trafficked into America. Victims are forced into prostitution, or to work in sweatshops, quarries, as domestic labor, or child soldiers, and in many forms of involuntary servitude.

Throughout the past three years, the Bush Administration has taken strong steps to combat trafficking at home and abroad. Today at the conference, the Bush Administration announced new steps and resources to combat human trafficking. These initiatives include $14 million to law enforcement to help human trafficking victims, $4.5 million for organizations to assist victims, new interagency cooperation to ensure the timely delivery of benefits and services to victims, a model state law criminalizing human trafficking, new training resources, new task forces, as well as greatly increased investigations and prosecutions of human trafficking.

“From the very beginning of his Administration, President Bush has spoken forcefully and eloquently about the brutal crime of human trafficking,” said Attorney General John Ashcroft. “We will protect the victims, prosecute the perpetrators, and build partnerships to address, attack and prevent human trafficking. These steps send a clear message that America will repel aggressively assaults on our core values of freedom and respect for human dignity. We have had success in the past three years, but we understand that these efforts are only the beginning. It is critical that we work together to track down those who hide their barbaric businesses in the shadows, and to help their victims.”

* $14 Million for Law Enforcement Agencies and Service Providers To Help Trafficking Victims:

The Bush Administration today announced Department of Justice funding to support and implement local efforts to identify, rescue, and restore victims of trafficking. The Justice Department will make available $14 million to law enforcement agencies and service providers, and as many as 25 communities across the country will be eligible to receive this funding. This money will support anti-trafficking efforts to identify, rescue and restore victims of trafficking in communities across the country. The Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) will administer the new grant program.

* $4.5 Million for Organizations To Help Trafficking Victims: Today, the Justice Department awarded $4.5 million to nine local organizations that provide shelter where victims of trafficking can find refuge in the interval between rescue and the determination of eligibility for public assistance and other benefits. The grant program provides comprehensive services for victims of trafficking by building on existing community resources, to strengthen the collaboration and cooperation among existing agencies and organizations that serve trafficking victims; to provide training to criminal justice personnel, social service providers and the public of the rights and needs of trafficking victims; and to support the ability of trafficking victims to cooperate with law enforcement and prosecutors in the investigation and prosecution of trafficking cases. The Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance and the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) is administering this grant program. Grant recipients include:

For the Saud family to be kept in power they must have the backing of Washington. The deferred payment scheme was put in place in order to obtain the services of key Washington officials. These officials are invited to partake in the scheme whereby they do the Saud family bidding and receive money when they retire, be it consulting fees, legal fees or some other ruse. The Saud family are given such "special relationship" perks as "freedom from prosecution card" as well as circumvention of immigration and customs. This allows them to bring in their drugs, slaves and other contraband making themselves feel more at home within the United States without fear of prosecution. This scheme is said to be so endemic in Washington as to be a major industry.

KING FAHD AND CLINTON USE THE OLD PRESIDENTIAL TRICK

The old Washington maxim is that when a special interest needs a presidential agenda they follow a well used procedure perpetuated by Washington lobbyists, lawyers and consultants. All special interests have to do is back their preferred presidential candidate. If he loses they use their lobbyists, lawyers and consultants to make the more expensive deal with the opposition winner after the election but before the inauguration. This enables the president elect during the oath of office to get up and say he swears from that time forward to uphold the Constitution. Bill Clinton is said to have worked out an arrangement with the Saud family using this technique. The arrangement is said to not only to have included the University of Arkansas donation but a personal arrangement as well.

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS RECEIVES $23,500,000 FROM KING FAHD AND THE SAUD FAMILY

During an ongoing criminal investigatory dispute in Houston regarding King Fahd's oldest brother (Prince Saad), King Fahd and the Saud family gave $23,500,000 to the University of Arkansas. The Clinton Administration has continued the long standing "special relationship" with the Saud family. The "special relationship" includes, among other things, giving the Saud family "freedom from criminal prosecution" from US laws which all US citizens have to obey. The Clinton Administration has interfered with the US judicial system on several occasions on behalf of the Saud family at the expense of US citizenry.

CLINTON HYPOCRITICALLY INTERFERES WITH THE FEDERAL JUDICIAL SYSTEM

In the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton warned; "There is no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers. In our constitutional government, the complete independence of the courts of justice is essential."B13 Recently, President Clinton personally interfered with the separation of powers when he attempted to get the resignation of Federal judge Harold Baer after the judge made an unpopular decision. Feeling the strong arm tactics Judge Baer did reverse his decision. Clinton cannot plead ignorance since he taught Constitutional law. In another instance, the Clinton Administration sent a State Department official to Houston joined by a Justice Department official to interfere with the judicial process by intimidating a Federal judge in support of Prince Saad (Prince Saad was the Prince who had his daughter executed and her lover beheaded in Death of a Princess). The Clinton Administration was supporting Prince Saad against two of his slaves who had escaped from the Houston Ritz Hotel as well as two Vietnam Veterans also enslaved and tortured by the Saud family. A Washington lawyer initially aided the Vietnam Veterans only to abandon them upon becoming a White House political appointee. When cornered just after his appointment he said that further aiding the Vietnam Veterans would be a political negative.

KING FAHD'S PRIOR BUSINESS PARTNER AND THE KING'S
NEPHEWS ENSLAVE AND TORTURE VIETNAM VETERANS

John Keene fought proudly for his Country in Vietnam as a United States Marine. John and his buddy Jim Maes survived Vietnam only to be enslaved and tortured in Saudi Arabia by King Fahd's former business partner (Sheik Mohammed H Al Zahid) and the King's nephews (Essam, Tarik and Khalid). Jim died as a result of his tortures. They had worked for the Saudi Industrial Supply & Construction Corporation which was a Saud family wholly owned US company based in Boston. As happened to other United States citizens employed by the Saudi Industrial Supply & Construction Corporation ( Federal employer #04-2690911) John and Jim were merely used as examples by King Fahd's former business partner and the King's nephews to keep other foreign workers in line. There were no trumped up charges. King Fahd's former business partner said: "If I can do this to Americans, I can do it to you. What chance do you think you have? I have power. I have connections." He bragged on many occasions how the Saud family own Washington and can do anything they want in the United States. When Jim died his wife was pregnant with their fifth child and no means of support. Jim, a native American of Apache ancestry, believed in the freedoms our Country stands for and was willing to put his life on the line for our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Jim believed he could better support his family by leaving the then depressed Southwest and going to Saudi Arabia. Looking back, we see John and Jim were cautious men. They checked things out with the State and Commerce Departments through their US Senator. They then accepted the position with the Saudi owned United States corporation . During their enslavement and torture in Saudi Arabia they were able to escape. They went to the United States consulate in Dhahran for help and safety but were refused entry by the Marine on duty who said he was under orders to keep out United States citizens seeking such help. John Keene and Jim Maes hurried back to their work place. They found a driver waiting for them to take them to King Fahd's former business partner (Sheik Mohammed H Al Zahid). Mohammed knew everything. He had to have been tipped off by the US Consular officials. Soon after Jim received tea and water from Mohammed, he got violently ill. Jim got progressively worse. Jim suffered from weight loss, vomiting, swelling, headaches, etc. He died when his body exploded. An internationally respected author went to New Mexico and confirmed that Jim's autopsy showed he died of isocynate poisoning (methocynate of Bhopal fame is a close cousin). In 1991 Jim Maes's son (Anthony) was ordered to defend the northern border of Saudi Arabia from Iraqi incursion. There was an article about this in a local paper which mentioned how Jim Maes had been enslaved, tortured and murdered by HRH King Fahd's former business partner. It tells how the President ordered Anthony to "defend the Saud family from the Iraqis" under threat of court martial. Anthony tells how he was "ordered by the President to protect the murderers of his father". It is not known if Jim's son has Desert Storm Syndrome Poisoning. Anthony could be the second generation Maes to be poisoned in Saudi Arabia.

TEDDY KENNEDY'S OFFICE BACK DATES LETTER TO CIRCUMVENT AIDING VIETNAM VETERANS

Albuquerque Journal investigated the enslavement and torture of Vietnam Veterans by the Saud family. They reported; "the State Department was reluctant to press the issue ... aides in Kennedy's office say they have pursued the case to the U.S. State Department. They say they have pursued the release of several documents by the department before deciding what the senator's office will do. The release is dependent upon one final document, and appears to be imminent." Senator Edward Kennedy's office then used the franking privilege of having no postal date imprint to back date a letter rather than answer the Albuquerque Journal. Senator Kennedy's office has since ignored any and all inquiries regarding the Vietnam Veterans enslaved and tortured by the Saud family. It should also be known Senator Kennedy lives next to Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz's palace near CIA headquarters on Chainbridge Road, McLean, Virginia. The matter was then brought to the attention of the Senate Ethics Committee. The Senate Ethics Committee reported: "The Committee has addressed many such complaints in the past, and the Members of the Committee are unanimous in the view that each Senator must have considerable latitude with respect to how he or she will run a Senate office. Further, it is each Member's prerogative to determine how certain constituent matters are to be handled. In other words, these are political matters for the Member involved, and this Committee will not review or comment upon them."B15

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AMERICANS AGAINST THE SAUDUCTION OF WASHINGTON

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STATE DEPARTMENT ACCUSED OF AIDING SAUD FAMILY ENSLAVEMENT AND TORTURE OF US CITIZENS

Houston Chronicle reports: "In Washington, a State Department spokesperson declined to 'discuss the laws of another country', and no one at the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh would discuss the policy of the United States toward the Saudi law that foreign workers be given no more than 24 hours refuge in a foreign mission. While there is no indication that the U.S. government returns Americans to Saudi employers, there are indications that U.S. citizens are turned away when they seek refuge at the embassy and consulates in Saudi Arabia. In the case of Monica Radwan, 35, a Houston kindergarten teacher, U.S. officials refused to shelter her and her two children ... when she sought refuge at the U.S. Embassy ... a consular official called in Marine guards, who physically picked [her daughter] up and carried her off the premises, with her mother and brother following."

DESERT STORM SYNDROME POISONING AFFLICTS APPROXIMATELY 40,000 US SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES POISONING IS NEVER IDENTIFIED

Desert Storm Syndrome Poisoning has affected more than 40,000 United States military as well as their families. These families have never been given a straightforward answer on what happened to them by the State Department. The afflicted members of these families are dying a slow death without any forthright explanation given by Washington on what has happened to them. It could be said these soldiers and their infected family members have made the Supreme Sacrifice. These families do not know they are suffering the results of the Saud family Washington deferred payment scheme. Blockers, obfuscation, plain lying as well as other tools are used by Washington to protect their Saud family deferred payments against the Desert Storm Syndrome Poisoning victims. This is all done under the guise of vital interest.

US SPECIAL INTERESTS READY TO SACRIFICE US MILITARY TO DEFEND THE SAUD FAMILY

One US lieutenant general said; "the United States had already demonstrated its commitment during the war [Desert Storm] to defend Western interests in the Middle East. If the country is threatened, we would make the same commitment." Western interests could be defined as the interests of a few US international bankers, a few US multi national oil companies, a few US multi national contractors involved in the Saud family commission scheme; plus chosen Washington lawyers, lobbyists, consultants and other retainers. Regarding Saudi Arabia, the definition of country can be construed as a code word for the Saud family. The definition of "threatened" could include any internal opposition to the brutal authoritarian rule of the Saud family by the citizens under their subjection.

US MILITARY ARE BLOWN UP IN RIYADH BECAUSE OF LAX SAUD FAMILY GOVERNMENT SECURITY. CLINTON STATE DEPARTMENT REFUSES TO AID THE FAMILIES OF THE DEAD US SOLDIERS

We have seen indifferent Saud family government security allow US soldiers to be blown up in Riyadh. What were these US soldiers doing training Prince Abdullah's forces anyway? Even though Prince Abdullah's forces are billed as the Saudi national guard, Arabs under the control of the Saud family know they are Abdullah's private guard to be used against them. Recently, despite repeated requests for aid, the State Department has ignored the families of the soldiers blown up November 17, 1996 in Riyadh. Congress, yet again, has turned a deaf ear.

Sheik Mohammed H Al Zahid and the Saud family especially like to enslave and torture Vietnam Veterans because they symbolized power. The Vietnam Veterans were specifically hired by his US subsidiary to make examples of them to guest workers from other countries. John Keene and Jim Maes survived by begging food from the other guest workers. The Yemenis were especially good to them giving them figs, bananas and water. These other guest workers were encouraged by King Fahd's nephews to call back home and tell of the enslavement and torture of US citizens most probably so the Saud family would not be construed as a puppet of Washington. When documents were sought under the Freedom of Information Act by the Vietnam Veterans and other responsible US parties, the State Department in a series of contradictory statements said they were destroyed or did not have them or would release them with key parts blacked out.

RON BROWN: A PORTRAIT OF A WASHINGTON INSIDER WHO HYPOCRITICALLY SOLD OUT VIETNAM VETERANS ENSLAVED AND TORTURED BY THE SAUD FAMILY

Ron Brown should be considered the typical Washington insider. Ron Brown had many titles in Washington. He was at one time Chairman of the National Democratic Party appointed to that position by others who saw nothing wrong with his behavior. He ended his career by being Secretary of Commerce constantly looking for side deals that were personally rewarding.

Again, by virtue of being appointed to these prestigious positions, the Democratic Party and the Clinton Administration saw nothing wrong with his behavior.

New York Times reports: "Mr Ly Thanh Binh ... [has been] telling reporters, Congressional staff members and agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation ... that Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown had sought a bribe from the Vietnamese Government in return for his help in lifting the trade embargo against Vietnam."

Mr Binh who reported the alleged solicitation said; 'My motive purely is that I do not believe in unethical government conduct.' ...

Mr. Brown seem to contradict statements put out earlier by his aids. ... Mr. Brown flew to South Florida on a private jet, met with Mr. Hoa and told him he wanted to be 'the exclusive lobbyist' for Vietnam ...

Mr. Brown wanted $700,000 and other economic concessions. Mr. Binh said the money was to be placed in a Singapore bank account controlled by a friend of Mr. Brown."

From Freedom of Information Act, Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown in his trip to Saudi Arabia met with a number of Saud family members and their associates. The Summary Schedule says Secretary Brown also met in a country team briefing with CEO of AT&T Network Systems International and the Managing Director of AT&T Saudi Arabia.

The New Yorker says: "Fahd had agreed to give a four-billion-dollar telephone contract to A.T.&T.. European competitors complained that the American bid had been far higher than theirs - twice as high. Fahd was prepared to pay dearly for his relationship with the United States."

ATT gave $765,763, to the Democratic Party between 1993 and 1995. King Fahd also placed a $3.6 billion order with Boeing. Boeing gave $65,000 to the Democratic National Committee.

Clinton was forcing King Fahd to accept the US corporations over their European competitors.

During Secretary Ron Brown's first months in office he was responsive to the plight of the Vietnam Veterans enslaved and tortured by the Saud family, that is until he returned from a trade mission to Saudi Arabia.

Upon returning Secretary Brown called the plight of the Vietnam Veterans a negative and refused to aid in the negotiations to settle this dispute. At this same time he was actively and successfully pursuing negotiations between large US corporations and the Saud family.

The Washington Post reports: "Clinton yielded to 'resurgent mercantilism' and allowed Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown to become the U.S. government's human rights spokesman, Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth said: ... 'So thoroughly did the quest for foreign markets eclipse human rights that Secretary Brown made the audacious claim, without presidential contradiction, that ... the public stigmatization of repressive regimes - for decades indispensable to the defense of human rights - is a mere 'feel-good policy' that accomplishes nothing."

The Washington Post reports: "A Brazilian businessman arranged a large loan to a friend of Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown, which was used to buy a Washington town house now occupied by the friend and owned by Brown, according to U.S. News & World Report. ... [The businessman] is an adviser to Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. ... [The businessman] held a dinner party at his home in Sao Paolo for Brown when he headed a trade mission to Brazil".

It has been learned that Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown left an estate which is said to include a sizable cache of monies in a Grand Cayman off shore account. This off shore account is said to be in his own name. He did not make any effort to hide it under a number, shell corporation or one of his associates names. The behavior of Secretary of Commerce Ronald H Brown should be considered the rule and not the exception in Washington. Usually Washington types do not meet with an untimely death and are able to pass their hidden accounts to others without notice during their retirement years. At this time it is not known whence these Cayman monies could have come or how much if any came from foreign countries, US corporations or the Saud family. It is believed that Ron Brown never registered as an agent of a foreign country or a lobbyist for corporations either before of after he became Secretary of Commerce. This is better left to the world media to track.

ARABIAN PENINSULA AND THE INTERNATIONAL SEX SLAVE TRADE

The Arabian Peninsula inhabitants have long been involved in purchasing slaves. Up until recently, most of these slaves were purchased in Africa. With the advent of oil wealth the Saudi princes have been able to extend their slave purchases throughout the world. This has enabled the Saudi princes to become more selective and specialized in their tastes for slaves. The Saud family continue to be the prime purchasers on the international slave trade and are known as high end buyers. The Saudi Arabian Government continues to refuse to sign the United Nations treaties on slavery or other human rights issues because they do not want to be subject to their provisions. They will not sign extradition treaties even with Washington. They constantly declare they are free of slavery but will not allow international scrutiny. We will deal with the kidnaping of US male and female children by Saudi princes and their associates in this issue. We will substantiate the pattern of abuse using documented occurrence where the princes and their associates have been caught.

STATE DEPARTMENT SENSITIVITIES TOWARDS THE SAUDI ARABIAN INTERNATIONAL SLAVE TRADE

It has been an open secret in Washington that the State Department has been extremely sensitive to criticism of its actions regarding Saud Arabia and its princes. There has been an unusual amount of personnel turnover at the Saudi Arabian desk where officials showing the slightest tendency towards ethics and morality are either transferred or terminated to make an example to others. Why the State Department sensitivity? There are things going on in Saudi Arabia which are so embarrassing to Washington that if the United States citizenry knew, their worst fears about Washington would be corroborated. We will deal with one of these sensitivities in this issue, child abduction by Saudi princes. This is one of several issues we have been reluctant to publish because of the emotional ramifications to families of children who have been abducted around the world in general and the United States in particular. We had to balance what the Saud princes involved in these abductions would do upon publication. In considering publishing this article against the potential benefits of making known their actions, we chose the latter. The humanitarian action would be for the Saudi Arabian Government to return the sex slaves to their US families so they could receive hospitalization and rehabilitation. We believe this will be considered impractical because of the numbers as well as the legal and political ramifications.

We have seen time and time again US media reported scandals when slaves of Saudi princes and their associates brought into the United States try to escape. The State Department then intervenes on behalf of the Saudi princes with diplomatic or retroactive diplomatic immunity. We initially became aware of non-parental child abductions by Saudi princes when a US citizen enslaved and tortured by King Fahd's nephews was told by a guard in their palace prison the last person to inhabit his cell was a "US girl child whore slave". We soon found the extensive nature of the non-parental abductions of US children by Saudi princes and their procurers.

This room eerily looks like the room in Kuwait used by the Iraqis to torture Kuwaitis during the gulf war. This cell is in the Eastern province of Saudia Arabia within King Fahd's nephews' palace and is where the "US child whore slave" was held.

MIDDLE EAST TIMES SPEAKS OUT ON SAUDI PRINCES SEX SLAVES

The Middle East Times reports: "There's no capability for reform, no strong character to stop the princes from corruption. You'd need someone to line tens of them up against the wall and shoot them, they're so used to spending this amount of money. You couldn't tell them -- you don't need 20 whores for the night, just one or two. Or you've got 20 dwarves in the palace, do you need to get two or three whores for every one? Someone like Prince Bishai Bin Abdel Aziz -- that's one real debauched individual. Try to stop him and he'll come and kill you." L105 The Saudi princes dehumanize child sex slaves obtained through their sex rings by demeaning them and calling them whores so as not to come into conflict with Saudi religious tenets.

US CHILD SEX SLAVES

There is a thriving industry of international child sex slavery within the United States. It has gone unabated for decades covered up by the assertiveness of Washington lobbyists representing the perpetrating countries, especially Saudi Arabia. Saudi princes are the high end buyers in the US child sex slave market and demand the best product. How does the US sex slave trade operate?

The National Center for Missing & Exploited children reports: "Child pornographers (and pimps), like other sex offenders, seek victims in places where youth gather: shopping malls, fast food establishments, nonalcoholic clubs, video game arcades, bus stations and through unethical 'modeling' agencies. The fact that juveniles are being recruited from the community both for pornography and prostitution is most disturbing ... runaways were spotted by pimps loitering in bus stations who approached the teenagers almost as they exited the buses. ... A primary method of procuring a juvenile for prostitution is through the use of feigned friendship and love. ... They (procurers) evaluated what the young woman needed, created the dependency, and then took advantage of that dependency. ... if a teenager was a runaway the pimp would find shelter for her ... Through practice, many child molesters have developed a real knack for spotting vulnerable victims."

This is a favored recruitment method commonly used by procurers to obtain children of both sexes for their own use or sale. Again, among the most prominent high end purchasers within the international child sex industry are Saudi princes. Saudi princes will also "special order" children through a picture of the child in a media or give a description of a desired child. In these cases the child is "snatched" from in front of their house, coming from school or at a store while with a parent. The child is in Saudi Arabia before the local police develop a search procedure.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children further reports; "pimps placed legitimate advertisements in newspapers and interviewed women for secretarial positions. They told female applicants that no job was available or that it had already been filled. They then attempted to date the applicants. With continued contact the pimp worked on the woman's weaknesses and tried to find out if she needed large sums of money. The pimps also placed advertisements for dancers, models or escort services. Showcasing was another technique in which applicants performed acts that were videotaped. While videotaping, the pimps tried to discover if the young women were interested in making large sums of money. They (procurers) wanted to be identified as mind controllers, experts in understanding the vulnerabilities and dependencies of women and men"L107 With quality product in hand, procurers will then send videos to Saudi princes in an attempt to sell the child. If the Saudi prince is interested he may ask that delivery be made near his plane in order to make a swift exit to Saudi Arabia.

KING FAHD'S SONS' LOS ANGELES SEX RING

King Fahd's sons' control their child sex ring from their Beverly Hills palaces. They learned from the Al-Fassi palace sex scandals in Beverly Hills during the 1980's and rent motels away from their palaces to conduct orgies with children procured for them. Around these motels they have a cordon of US security guards. An inner cordon is made up of the princes body guards, usually foreign. The younger the child the more desirable. These children are brought up through the sex ring channel to the point of purchase under the modeling or acting ruses of going to a shoot or set in Saudi Arabia. Upon purchase, children are then taken by limousine directly to the Saudi prince's plane at Los Angeles airport. As we mentioned in our prior newsletters, Washington allows Saudi princes and their entourage to circumvent customs and immigration which allows them to ship their child sex slaves out of the US without need of the customary passport. The children are then escorted directly onto the Saudi princes plane and flown to Saudi Arabia never to be seen again.

PRINCE JEFRI'S SEX SLAVES

These girls were brought to Brunei in a similar manner to that used by Saudi princes. Within the US a child is generally defined as someone that is under 17 years of age. We do not know if some of the girls in the above picture are under 17 years of age or their country of origin. This rare glimpse of the international sex trade sheds light on not only what goes on in Brunei but what goes on in Saudi Arabia. King Fahd's sons and other Saudi princes are directly involved in the international child sex industry as high end buyers. We see one of the usual enticements of a modeling job in a distant land. Life Magazine reports; "former Miss USA Shannon Marketic, in a recent lawsuit, claims she was imprisoned. She had gone there for what she believed was legitimate modeling work paying $3,000 per day ... she tried to leave and was forbidden."

In Miss USA's law suite she said upon arriving she was given a physical exam by a doctor ostensibly for country health regulations. Soon after, she was given clothes to wear for the evening. She said she was escorted to a room where she all of a sudden felt drowsy and fell asleep. She awoke to find her clothes rearranged upon her body, like somebody had removed them and then redressed her. We know from the Center for Missing and Abused Children that pedophiles keep photo/video libraries of their victims. It is reasonable to believe there are pictures/videos of Miss USA taken of her without her knowledge while unconscious. Even so, she was one of the lucky girls being high profile and whose parents knew of her whereabouts. Washington still denies the international child sex rings prey upon US children. US based child abduction organizations funded by Washington will not admit on the record to the international child sex rings preying upon US children for fear of loosing their funding. An old Washington maxim is: "He who controls the investigation wins." Miss USA lost her law suit because the State Department granted Immunity. The abducted children and their parents always lose out to foreign policy considerations of the politicians and their lobbyist associates who represent countries like Brunei and Saudi Arabia. When members of an international sex ring are caught Washington allows them freedom from criminal and civil actions by either giving them diplomatic immunity, retroactive diplomatic immunity or other State Department protection under the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act.

US MODEL DISAPPEARS

A new model comments: "At first I shared an apartment with two other models, one ... I forget what her name was, who was there for three weeks and then she was gone. Disappeared ... I know what I was getting myself into. I wasn't like the naive girl from Podunk that came in and got drugged at a party and sold to the Arabs!"

ANOTHER MODEL DISAPPEARS

"Which one (international model) disappeared on a (film) shoot with a nonexistent Saudi Arabian magazine, ending up who knows where?"

Middle East businessmen, and others get into the relatively small-time modeling game where most of the abuse occurs."L111 John Casablancas as founder of Elite modeling was accused by Ilene Ford of Ford modeling of introducing models to; "disgusting --- one day it was Arabs, the next day it was Jews from New York".

GULF PROCURERS

A runway agent at the New York international modeling agency Wilhelmina reports: "A lot of Arabs were storming Europe looking for beautiful young girls. A lot of girls made a lot of money not modeling"

It should be noted "Arabs" was a term used to connote Gulf citizens, especially Saudi princes and unfairly construed towards all Arabs.

US CHILDREN AS A TARGET OF THE INTERNATIONAL SEX SLAVE TRADE

The Saudi princes and their associates purchase US children both male and female as sex slaves. Saud princes are willing to pay dearly for the right quality child (product) and consider virgins as the top of the line. The children are usually shipped in private planes or boats by Saudi princes. They are drugged to be malleable so as not to make disturbances. Some are recruited within the United States or Northern Europe for fictitious jobs as models or actresses while others are purchased from local procurers. Once in Saudi Arabia the girls and boys are whisked off to the palace of the purchasing prince. A prince is absolute ruler of his compound. Architecturally, the compounds are designed with slave quarters included. Within the palace walls whatever the prince says goes, there are no government restrictions to his will.

If a slave escapes they are immediately brought back by the Saudi security police to the responsible prince who may do with them as he pleases. They rarely escape since they spend most of their time within the confined parts of the palace compound under supervision. When the prince entertains his male friends he provides them with both male and female child sex slaves for their enjoyment. If he tires of a child sex slave he will sell it to another prince or sheik. It is believed once these sex slaves have outlived their usefulness they are dumped into Rubal Khali.

It would be to dangerous to free them for fear of potential embarrassment to Saudi Arabian public relations abroad. One hears many stories along the Cote d'Azure of young girls being enticed to luxurious parties given by Saudi princes never to be seen again. Many young girls and boys along the French coast have stories of Saudi princes trying to entice them into their planes or boats for "a ride". The Saudi princes have grown so sophisticated in enticing young girls and boys, they have even financed their own modeling and companion agencies within Europe and the United States to insure top quality merchandise and cut out the middle men.

Many models have stories of being solicited by Saudi princes or friends who have disappeared.

STATE DEPARTMENT INTRANSIGENCE

Saudi Arabia's participation in international slavery has long been known by State Department careerists who are powerless to react for fear they will be destroyed professionally or will lose the deferred payments promised by Prince Bandar upon their retirement. One has mentioned off the record the widespread knowledge within the State Department of Saudi child theft within the US. Many of the kidnappings in the United States are easily masked within the larger number of runaways each year. The breakdown of the US family has enabled the Saudi princes and their procurers to "special order" kidnap without much concern for law enforcement who are usually looking for someone within the local area. One should often wonder when seeing girls and boys faces in the post office or milk carton wanted ads how many have been "disappeared" to Saudi Arabia.

CHILD MOLESTERS: A BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS

We do know Saudi princes collect and swap child pornography between themselves. They are said to have their own child sex pornography exchange where pictures of their youngest sex slaves are the most in demand. National Center for Missing & Exploited Children reports: "It is difficult to know with certainty why pedophiles collect child pornography and erotica. ... Collecting this material may help pedophiles satisfy, deal with or reinforce their compulsive, persistent sexual fantasies about children. ... Collecting may also fulfill needs for validation. ... Pedophiles swap pornographic photographs ... As they add to their collections, they get strong reinforcement from each other for their behavior. The collecting and trading process becomes a common bond. ... Child pornography and child erotica are used for the sexual arousal and gratification of pedophiles. ... The younger the child and the more bizarre the acts, the greater the value of the pornography."

In order for the Saudi princes to obtain these very young children who are too young to be on their own, the usual "special order" is placed with their procurers so these children can be snatched from their parents. Again, local police are trained through Washington financed programs to look for kidnapping locally. Washington denies the existence of the international child sex slave industry just as the Justice Department denied the existence of the Mafia as an international crime syndicate. For several decades the Justice Department called all crime local allowing the Mafia to thrive in the US. Now the Justice Department calls all nonparental child kidnapping local and finances police training accordingly. Ambassador Prince Bandar's Washington retainers see to it that very little is mentioned about the international Saudi prince child sex slave trade. Remember, one old Washington maxim is: "The one who controls the investigation wins."

SAUDI PRINCES AND THE MODELING RACKET

It is quite well known within the international slave trade that Saudi princes are high end buyers. There are few countries that do not have procurers working with the international child sex industry. Saudi Princes contract out "special order" requests in various cities with their local procurers from the barrios of Brazil, London's Leichester Square, Paris's Place de Pompidou. Due to the recent lax border regulations in Scandinavia, the princes now get their fair haired children from immigrant procurers. In the United States shopping malls, amusement parks and video parlors are prowled by procurers. The Princes not only do not like dealing with the seemlier elements of the international child sex industry such as the street procurers but see the danger of the media picking their activities up, hence their own modeling agencies. Lately, Saudi princes have begun moving into the modeling agency business to recruit male and female models for some shoot in a distant land never to be heard of again.

PRINCE FAISAL'S SEX RING IN HOUSTON

As we saw in the third issue Prince Faisal built a marble palace on Kirby in the posh River Oaks section of Houston. He had procurers go to various areas where young people congregated and bring them back to his palace. The prince had a continual party fueled by a stream procured teenagers both male and female. It was relatively easy for the procurers as the word got out about the sumptuous surroundings of the prince. The prince had the best of foods, drink and drugs available every day for his continual party. We do not know if any of these teenagers were enticed to Saudi Arabia. We have been told there was a hushed scandal where after the prince left abruptly apparently never to return. His favored girls lived at his palace, each had a leased car and the capability to go to the exclusive Saks Pavilion Shops near the Galleria and charge clothes to the Prince. Mohammed Al Fassi became so infamous with his perpetual party at his palace in Beverly Hills that he was run out of town after painting the genitals of his statues. Again, we do not know if any of the young attendees ended up in Saudi Arabia.

CAN SAUDI PRINCES BE CONSIDERED PEDOPHILES?

Many of the Saudi Princes would definitely be considered pedophiles and child molesters if subject to the laws of the United States. Within their own country they would probably not be prosecuted as pedophiles. When a Saudi prince abducts a child from the US, once in Saudi Arabia the child is considered his total responsibility to do with what he may. The State Department in their human rights report have justified Saud family slavery by saying; " it is part of the Saud family culture deeply embedded within the mores and filches of the society".

CHILD SEX RINGS: A BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS

The National Center for Missing & Exploited children reports: "The rule of thumb that psychiatrists and others use is that there must be an age difference of five years. ... child sex ring is defined as one or more offenders simultaneously involved with several child victims. ... In the syndicated (child sex) ring, a well-structured organization recruits children, produces pornography, delivers direct sexual services, and establishes an extensive network of customers. ... Maintaining control is very important in the operation of a child sex ring. It takes a certain amount of skill and cunning to maintain a simultaneous sexual relationship with multiple partners. It is especially difficult if you have the added pressure of concealing illegal behavior. In order to operate a child sex ring, an offender has to know how to control and manipulate children. ... control is primarily maintained through attention, affection, and gifts -- part of the seduction process."

GOVERNOR PRINCE MOHAMMED AND HIS SEX RING

The Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights in Saudi Arabia based in London through their Saudi dissident leader Mr Masari said; "one regional Governor, whom he accused of tolerating drug users and child sex rings".M117 Prince Mohammed bin Fahd, Governor of the Eastern Province has been accused by the Al Saud newsletter of condoning sex slavery within his administered area. We have been told Governor Prince Mohammed is an active participant in the child sex rings of the Eastern Province. We have been told he has parties for his friends with child sex as the main entertainment. Governor Prince Mohammed likes Hollywood where there are many boys and girls from which to entice into becoming sex slaves in Saudi Arabia under the ruse of film and modeling contracts. These sex slaves are allegedly sold and resold until they are used up whereupon they are helicoptered over Rubal Khali and dumped.

BRITISH MINISTER OF DEFENSE ALLEGED TO BE PROCURER OF FEMALES FOR PRINCE MOHAMMED

Speaking of Jonathan Aitken, the London Times reports: "But he had been in the Cabinet barely a year when he resigned to clear his name of media allegations of being dependent on Saudi money and procuring women for Arabs."M118 Again, international media frequently attribute the degenerate behavior of Saudi princes to Arabs in general. In this case, Governor of the Eastern Province and son of King Fahd, Prince Mohammed used Aitken as a procurer of young girls through Aitken's health club.

SAUDI HEADMASTER ACCUSED OF MOLESTING BOY

Amnesty International reports; "Dr Mohammed Khalifa an Egyptian doctor working in Saudi Arabia, received 80 lashes in May. He had been tried on charges of slandering a Saudi Arabian headmaster whom he had accused of sexually abusing his son."M119 It is doubtful if their was a Saudi Government investigation of merit, especially when the child was the son of a guest worker.

KING FAHD'S NEPHEWS RAPISTS!

A young girl heard her father had died while she was visiting King Fahd's nephew in Boston. He and his friends gang raped her after she became traumatized by the news of her father's death. When asked why, one of the participants said they just wanted to see what it was like to have sex with a girl who was so sad. It is not known if the State Department gave these rapists retroactive diplomatic immunity or other assistance. It is known nothing happened to the assailants.

KING FAHD IS CAUGHT RAPING A YOUNG FRENCH GIRL

Before Fahd worked his way up to become King, he was a degenerate Prince who squandered Arabian Peninsula oil money on gambling along the Riviera. One day while eating he spotted a little French girl and told friends he had to have her immediately. He had his associates bring the girl to his suite at the hotel whereupon he raped her. He had promised not to penetrate her fully so as to traumatize her but he did. The girl was screaming so loudly that two hotel security men appeared. There was blood everywhere with the little girl hysterical. Fahd paid off the two guards to keep quiet and take the little girl. Fahd then paid off the parents of the little French girl and the matter was dropped. No criminal charges were ever filed.

PRINCE SULTAN'S CHILD SEX SLAVES

Prince Sultan is Ambassador Prince Bandar's father. He has a former child sex slave, now older than he desires, in Paris supply him with female children on "special order". Prince Sultan seeks young girls who are loyal, subservient and sexual. These young girls are treated reasonably well by him indulging them with gifts and large amounts of cash bonuses and salaries. We believe he returns these girls to Paris after he tires of them with generous compensation. These children can only be considered sex slaves because of their age. Recently, Prince Sultan purchased seven young French girls from this Parisian procurer to satisfy his needs. He keeps these female child sex slaves away from the eyes of his friends.

HYPOCRITICAL SAUDI GOVERNMENT!

The London Times reports: "Executions in Saudi Arabia are prescribed for murder, rape, drug smuggling and child abuse, and carried out in public outside a mosque after prayers on Fridays."

If the Saud family abided by it's own laws there would be many Saudi princes who would meet the fate of beheading. Hypocrisy is rampant in Saudi Arabia.

MANILA ISSUES SAUDI SEX WARNING TO MIGRANT MAIDS

London Times reports: "The Philippines government, responding to dozens of tragic cases of maltreatment, has warned young women going to work as maids in Saudi Arabia that they will be sexually harassed by Saudi men and slapped about by their Saudi mistresses. ... You have to ward off advances by your master, his brother, son and other male members of the household. ... the Philippines labour ministry has also told young male workers heading to Saudi Arabia that they must expect to be at risk of rape."

Never does a Saudi prince get charged let alone beheaded for raping a male or female immigrant worker in Saudi Arabia. When they are caught in such criminal activities within the United States Washington gives them diplomatic or retroactive diplomatic immunity.

PRIME MINISTER OF BANGLADESH SPEAKS OUT AGAINST CHILD SLAVERY

Shaykha Hasina Wajed, the Prime Minister, has expressed her determination to curb criminal activities relating to the abuse of women and children. She is known to be appalled by the practice of smuggling Bangladeshi children to the Middle East to be used as jockeys in camel racing, and has succeeded in curbing the practice through increased border surveillance.

Saudi princes order child slaves for certain specialties. European and US children are desirable as sex slaves. Bangladeshi child slaves are ideal for camel jockeys because of their diminutive stature.

US CHILD SEX SLAVE MYSTERY ON THE NILE

There are many incidences of people being approached by escaping Saudi slaves within the United States. Rarely is there an occurrence of people being approached by a Saudi child sex slave outside the US trying to escape. The reason is that they are kept in seclusion within the palaces rarely to leave or be seen by anyone but the prince and his male friends. Recently, two German male students were on a tour boat going down the Nile. They were looking at the river bank as it passed by when all of a sudden a door opened nearby and a young girl ran out. She said she was an American and begged their help saying she had been kidnapped by this Saudi prince who was inside months before in the United States. She was hysterical but never mentioned her name in the brief encounter. Two men shortly appeared and spread their jackets showing shoulder holster guns in a threatening way. They then took the girl on either side and went back behind the door. Upon docking one student watched to see if the American girl left while the other called the US Embassy. After repeated referrals the German student explained what had happened to an Embassy officer but was told the Embassy could do nothing unless they knew the girls name. When the German student continually pleaded with the Embassy officer for help the official became angered and hung up. The American girl never was seen leaving the boat by the two German students.

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATOR SEXUALLY SOLICITS A KUWAITI

Washington Report reports: "Hamad Alqahatani, a Kuwaiti student attending Northern Virginia Community College in Fairfax, VA has filed a $3 million lawsuit against George Washington University in Washington, DC on charges of discrimination. According to Alqahantani, when he attempted to transfer to GW last year, E. Donald Driver, then director of GW's Office of International Services, told him that he would be admitted if he paid a $10,000 bribe or if he had sex with one of Driver's male colleagues. In response to Alqahatani's bewilderment at the request, Driver allegedly responded that Arabs are known to be "rich and homosexual. --- American-Arab Anti-Descrimination Committee --- current chair said: 'The ordeal suffered by Mr Alqahatani is degrading and dehumanizing. Unfortunately, it demonstrates how stereotypes can serve as the basis for discriminatory action.'"

It is appalling that this young student is subjected to this behavior by an authority who could have suborned him if Mr Alqahatani was not strong enough to go public and use the laws available in the US to seek justice. Unfortunately, when a Saud family torture victim was institutionally raped by Saud family authorities he did not have such legal recourse available.

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