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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBTFD who wrote (7392)	6/15/2006 3:07:27 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

the biggest base in the history of the MID EAST continues to be BUILT IN IRAQ....we're in for the long and dangerous run thanks to the bush administration

To: JBTFD who wrote (7392)	6/15/2006 3:11:05 PM
From: Geoff Altman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9838

IMO whether or not we're planning on keeping base(s) in Iraq will have no affect on the level of violence so I think that's a poor example to use. In any case, why would you think that Rumsfeld would lie about this when we've been trying to close bases all over the US and the world for the last 10 years or so........?

To: JBTFD who wrote (7392)	6/17/2006 1:08:59 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

U.N.: Koranic schools in Senegal fuel child trafficking CNN ^ \| June 16 2006 \| Reuters cnn.com In a dirty white T-shirt hanging down to his knees, 4-year-old Harouna Balde begs for coins in bare feet among the traffic on the polluted streets of Dakar. Holding a rusty begging tin that is the trademark of the "talibes" -- students at Senegal's Koranic schools -- Balde says he must take back money or face a beating from his religious teacher, or marabout. "I must bring back 500 francs ($0.90) every day to my master or face punishment," says the tiny boy. He travels from his squalid daara, or religious school, in the distant suburb of Thiaroye to beg all day in the city center. Balde is one of an estimated 100,000 children begging on the streets of Senegal, according to U.N. officials -- most of them sent out by their religious teachers. The begging is a modern corruption of a Senegalese tradition, which allowed poor rural families to provide their children with a basic education and sometimes send them to towns where they might have greater opportunities. Now, the booming industry has become so successful that children are smuggled from neighboring Mali, Gambia or Mauritania to beg in Dakar, U.N. child agency UNICEF said. Balde was separated from his parents in Guinea Bissau. "The problem is mushrooming," said Jean-Claude Legrand, West and Central Africa child protection officer with UNICEF, in an interview ahead of Friday's Day of the African Child. "The issue of begging children in Senegal is becoming a sub-regional child trafficking problem." Every year thousands of children are smuggled across West Africa, UNICEF says. Many end up as victims of forced labor, sexual abuse and prostitution...