ISIS raising cash to fund terror with human organ smuggling, heroin, oil

[Blackrook]

How ISIS is selling human organs to fund terror across Middle East Daily Mail Online

More fun news about ISIS.

The Nazis and the Communists at least had the decency to hide their atrocities and lie about them.

But ISIS puts all it's atrocities on youtube for the world to see.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Damn, the capitalism of these people makes Trump look like he owns this instead.

 

[aaronleland]

Shit. I thought you were going to say they're raising cash to fund cancer research. I was hoping to see Jihadi John doing the ice bucket challenge somewhere down the line.

 

[Bobby1250]

How ISIS is selling human organs to fund terror across Middle East Daily Mail Online

More fun news about ISIS.

The Nazis and the Communists at least had the decency to hide their atrocities and lie about them.

But ISIS puts all it's atrocities on youtube for the world to see.

 

[Sunni Man]

I don't believe a word of the media story.

Because the Israeli juden have had the illegal human organ market cornered for years. .....

 

[Bobby1250]

How ISIS is selling human organs to fund terror across Middle East Daily Mail Online.

ISIS is using Israel's shtick now?

Israeli Organ Trafficking and Theft: From Moldova to Palestine

Or, is it.............ISIS = Israel

Doctor admits Israeli pathologists harvested organs without consent

HOW US RABBIS & ISRAEL
TRAFFIC IN HUMAN ORGANS & MONEY LAUNDERING

 

[waltky]

More evidence of ISIS organ harvesting...

Exclusive: Islamic State sanctioned organ harvesting in document taken in U.S. raid
Thu Dec 24, 2015 - Islamic State has sanctioned the harvesting of human organs in a previously undisclosed ruling by the group’s Islamic scholars, raising concerns that the violent extremist group may be trafficking in body parts.

The ruling, contained in a January 31, 2015 document reviewed by Reuters, says taking organs from a living captive to save a Muslim's life, even if it is fatal for the captive, is permissible. For a U.S. government translation of the document, click here. Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the authenticity of the document. U.S. officials say it was among a trove of data and other information obtained by U.S. special forces in a raid in eastern Syria in May.

"The apostate's life and organs don't have to be respected and may be taken with impunity," says the document, which is in the form of a fatwa, or religious ruling, from the Islamic State’s Research and Fatwa Committee. "Organs that end the captive's life if removed: The removal of that type is also not prohibited," Fatwa Number 68 says, according to a U.S. government translation.

The document does not offer any proof that Islamic State actually engages in organ harvesting or organ trafficking. But it does provide religious sanction for doing so under the group's harsh interpretation of Islam - which is rejected by most Muslims. Previously, Iraq has accused Islamic State of harvesting human organs and trafficking them for profit. The document does not define “apostate,” though the Islamic State has killed or imprisoned non-Muslims, such as Christians, and Shiite Muslims, as well as Sunni Muslims who don't follow its extremist views.

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U.S. lifted Uzbekistan's human rights ranking as cotton field abuses continued
Wed Dec 23, 2015 - Turning a blind eye to human rights abuse

The news reached Dmitry Tihonov in Uzbekistan's rural heartland as the labor activist quietly recorded the arrival of thousands of teachers, nurses, laborers, students and other conscripts sent to the fields to pick cotton. A fire had destroyed Tihonov’s home office. When he returned to search the debris on Oct. 29, his reports for international monitors documenting the annual mobilization had vanished. Human rights groups say Tihonov is a victim of Uzbekistan’s efforts to conceal a massive, state-orchestrated forced labor system that underpins its position as the world’s fifth-largest cotton exporter. They cite regular arrests, intimidation and harassment of activists. The activist from Angren, a town about 62 miles (100 km) east of the capital Tashkent, says he’s under constant surveillance by local authorities to remind people “it’s better to keep away from me” – an allegation that Reuters could not independently confirm.

Persecution of activists is among many abuses cited by witnesses and human rights groups that fueled discord in the Obama administration this year over how much criticism Central Asia's most populous nation deserved in the U.S. State Department’s annual report on modern slavery. In a previously undisclosed memo, analysts in the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons called forced labor “endemic” during the cotton harvest and said Uzbekistan had "failed to make significant and sustained efforts" to improve its record. The early 2015 memo, reviewed by Reuters, recommended keeping Uzbekistan in the lowest tier of the report’s rankings, raising the specter of economic sanctions on a country whose cotton is used in yarn and fabric that play a significant role in the global supply chain.

But senior U.S. diplomats rejected the recommendation, downplaying concerns about human rights in a strategically important country. The landlocked nation of deserts, mountains and steppes was a transit point for U.S. troops and supplies during the war in neighboring Afghanistan. Washington now wants its help preventing the spread of Islamic militants, stabilizing Afghanistan and offsetting Russian influence in the region. When the State Department issued its 2015 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report in July, Uzbekistan was elevated from the bottom tier of violators. Uzbekistan doesn’t meet “minimum standards” to end trafficking, the report said, but it is “making significant efforts” – a caveat absent from the analysts’ assessment.

Uzbekistan’s government makes an estimated $1 billion a year from cotton sales, and the harvest mobilizations of roughly a million people that date to Soviet times are characterized as a patriotic duty. Uzbek officials did not answer repeated requests for comment but generally argue that citizens pick cotton voluntarily. A Reuters examination – based on interviews with local officials, activists and workers in the fields – found that while the country has made progress ending child labor in the harvest, it has intensified recruitment of adults and older teenagers using the same coercive approach.

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[waltky]

German police make sizable heroin haul...

Berlin police seize heroin haul worth $3.6 million
Jun 15,`16 -- Berlin police say they've arrested two men on narcotics charges and are seeking a third after finding 80 kilograms (176 pounds) of heroin worth an estimated 3 million euros ($3.6 million).

Police said Wednesday the heroin was brought in from outside Germany. It was found Friday in suitcases and stashed inside rolls of industrial plastic wrap in the back of a car.


A 36-year-old Lebanese man suspected of importing the drugs was arrested, along with his 23-year-old German-Lebanese accomplice who is accused of being responsible for the storage and trafficking of the heroin. A 46-year-old Lebanese man is still on the run.


No names were released in line with German privacy laws.

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[QuickHitCurepon]

That's got to really suck being Albino there.

Tanzania's albino community: 'Killed like animals' - BBC News

Albino people, who lack pigment in their skin and appear pale, are killed because potions made from their body parts are believed to bring good luck and wealth.

More than 70 albinos have been killed over the last three years in Tanzania, while there have been only 10 convictions for murder, campaigners say.

In the most recent case, in May, a woman was hacked to death.

"We're being killed like animals. Please pray for us," one albino woman sings, at an event called to promote the rights of albinos.