WASHINGTON
(JTA) — A U.S. professor reportedly alerted the FBI to kidney
trafficking years before a sting operation in New Jersey.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a professor of anthropology at the University
of California, Berkeley, tipped off authorities seven years ago after
learning of Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum’s alleged crimes through her research,
Ha’aretz wrote.
Rosenbaum was among 44 people arrested July 23 in a two-year probe
that snared high-ranking politicians and religious leaders involved in
a money-laundering scheme.
According to the Israeli daily, Scheper-Hughes’ sources said that
Rosenbaum held donors at gunpoint when they considered backing out of
the procedure. Many donors were villagers from poor communities in
Eastern Europe.
According to Scheper-Hughes’ research, one out of every five adult men in Moldova’s poorest villages have had a kidney removed.
The U.S. State Department said in 2004 that « it would be impossible to conceal a clandestine organ trafficking ring. »
Thanks Pyralene for the link. This is so funny, isn’t it :
DRZZ : Dans une interview
accordée au « blog drzz », Daniel Pipes affirmait que Barack Obama
échouera largement, et que si sa défaite sera moins cuisante que celle
de George McGovern, elle restera lourde.
PODHORETZ :
J’ignorais que Daniel Pipes pensait ceci et suis heureux de
l’apprendre. Il a raison. Obama ne peut pas remporter la
Maison-Blanche. Oui, c’est le nouveau McGovern.