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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (159025)	8/11/2003 9:14:21 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

oh ok.. thanks .. just what we need in this country right now.. more personal debt!

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (159025)	8/13/2003 6:14:05 PM
From: Cyprian	Respond to of 164684

US comes down on Israeli sex slave trade iol.co.za Jerusalem - About three thousand women, mainly from the former Soviet Union, are sold each year into a brisk Israeli sex industry that takes in about a billion dollars annually, a parliamentary report said on Sunday, slamming Israel's justice system for being lax on punishments. The women, seeking to escape poverty at home, are usually smuggled in by traffickers who promise them legitimate jobs. Once in Israel, they are sold for between $3 000 and $6 000 each (about R27 500 and R55 000). They receive between $25-$30 per customer, of which the pimp takes between 80 and 90 percent, the preliminary report said. ............................................................................................................................................................................ In July 2001, a US State Department report placed Israel in the third section of its "black list" on countries whose laws don't meet US criteria for dealing with this crime and threatened economic sanctions. (more....)