AmeriKa....Monday, November 28, 2005
INSTITUTE FOR WAR & PEACE REPORTING
BAGHDAD: Salima Jabar dresses as a peasant when she goes to the market near Baghdad Gate to sell produce. But the prices she charges for fruits and vegetables are shockingly high.
A kilogram of tomatoes goes costs 20,000 dinars (about $13) she said. "A kilo of apples," she said coolly, "goes for 25,000."
She then turned toward three young women, aged 18 to 25, who work with her at the market. The produce is her cover, and they are her actual product.
It's not known how many prostitutes work in Baghdad or how many have been killed or threatened. But prostitutes, community leaders and police reported that prostitution has significantly changed in the capital. Once an open secret, the business is now run as an underground operation.
Jabar, a 50-year-old madam who has worked as a prostitute for a decade, has not always run her ring covertly.
During Saddam's time, she said, she and her women serviced - and were protected by - Baathists. She described it as "a paradise. We played with money."
rest of freedom aricle
or if you prefer:
Ex-PM: Abuse as bad as Saddam era
LONDON, England -- Human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein if not worse, former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has said.
"People are doing the same as (in) Saddam's time and worse," Allawi said in an interview published in Britain on Sunday.
rest of Operation Iraqi Freedom article
Seems like the USA will need to go in and LIBERATE these pooor iraqi brothers...
Shit, you already are there
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