Posted on 04/24/2006 11:51:53 AM PDT by Crackingham
Sex trafficking, almost non-existent under Saddam Hussein, reportedly has resurfaced in Iraq, where an estimated 2,000 women have gone missing since 2003. The collapse of law and order and the absence of a stable government have allowed criminal gangs, alongside terrorists, to run amok, Time magazine reports.
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 the girls.
The U.S. State Department's June 2005 trafficking report says the extent of the problem in Iraq is "difficult to appropriately gauge" but cites an unknown number of Iraqi women and girls being sent to Yemen, Syria, Jordan and Persian Gulf countries for sexual exploitation.
Families are usually so shamed by the disappearance of a daughter that they do not report kidnappings. The resulting stigma of compromised chastity is such that even if the girl should resurface, she may never be taken back by her relations, the magazine said.
I guess state-sponsored rape doesn't count.
There's no evidence whatsoever that "sex trafficking" was unknown under Saddam.
There's no evidence whatsoever that "sex trafficking" was unknown under Saddam.
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It is hard to imagine that every crime that might, or does, exist on the face of the earth, was going on around Saddam. In such a filthy, criminal, heinous dictatorship as that of Saddam, anything and everything goes, that would make money and provide power.
There wasn't any Prostitution in the Soviet Union, either...
Just ask them and they would have told you...
There wasn't any corruption, fraud, murder, hunger, or starvation in the Socialist paradise, as well.......
Besides, who needs sex-trafficking when the leader and his kids just drive down the street and grab the prettiest young thing they can find without any reprecussions at all???
Saddam didn't allow gangs to kidnap and rape women. His sons had monopolies to do that.
When you control the crime information, as Saddam did, how can you say or not say what was true in the old days?
Comical Ali says: "Sex trafficking was unknown under Saddam. Well, not exactly unknown; there was sex trafficking, and we did know about it. But But all the traffic went one way: to Uday. So it wasn't a sex 'trade,' per se, more like Uday raping every woman he laid eyes on."
Where's the barf alert?
Being an oilman myself, it was well known that Iraq was to Kuwait what Tijuana is to San Diego.
I heard their was a huge rush to the brothels post-fall.
What the heck. Then why report this crap. Another RAT talking points that has nothing behind it? This has been going on all around the world, are we surprised? Crap!!!!
Time magazine. So you know it's true. Because Time doesn't have an agenda, do they?
Just one more way the MSM can attempt to say that the whole Iraq effort is a failure.
If I recall correctly, it was HONEST news reporting that was non-existent under Saddam...
I haven't been keeping track of how many, maybe as few as two, maybe as many as six or eight, but I know this is not the first story I have read that deals with some crime "almost unknown under Saddam" that is now "widespread" or "rampant."
I've got to call BS. If we're going to get a list of crimes now taking place that supposedly were "unknown under Saddam" then the idiots in the MSM need to balance it with a list of crimes taking place on the orders of Saddam that no longer are ... including a recap of jveritas' document translations!
Sounds like Detroit.........or New York........or L.A......or Philly.....or Miami........( do you see where this is going? )
CNN kept quiet about abuses under Saddam to keep their Baghdad Bureau open.
I doubt they were the only media outlet that knew of such crimes.
"Sex trafficking, almost non-existent under Saddam Hussein..."
This is based on what knowledge? Another DAMN LIE!
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