"Human Trafficking"? The US Commits More Human Rights Violations!

[leftchick]

What is left that the US has not been accused of? :grr:

WASHINGTON -- Getting contractors on U.S. military bases in Iraq to return the passports they seized from thousands of foreign workers imported to do menial labor in the war zone was "kind of like pulling teeth," even though the seizures violated U.S. laws against human trafficking, a senior contracting officer told Congress Wednesday.

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Much of the hearing focused on the agency's investigation of and response to a 2005 Tribune series, "Pipeline to Peril." The series documented networks run by a string of human brokers in Asia and the Middle East, men working in tandem with a chain of subcontractors doing business on U.S. military bases in Iraq. They deceitfully lured workers into the war zone from poor Asian nations, sometimes used coercion, violated human rights or failed to protect them.

Workers also were subjected to a type of debt bondage that made it difficult for them to leave one of the world's most dangerous places.

Unbeknownst to many Americans, there are an estimated 35,000 foreign workers, most from impoverished corners of South Asia or the Asian Pacific, working on U.S. bases for more than 200 subcontractors hired by Halliburton-subsidiary KBR. The Houston company is carrying out an unprecedented, multibillion-dollar privatization of military-support operations in Iraq, largely through subcontractors based in the Mideast.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0606220181jun22,1,540340.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

[sam sarrha]

1. i am sure the sex slaves are counted in W's monthly jobs created count

:cry: :grouphug: