Posted on 13/06/07
U.S. allies rapped for role in human trafficking
WASHINGTON -- Key Muslim allies were among countries lambasted yesterday by the Bush administration for complicity in the global trade in sex slaves and forced labour.Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait, Malaysia, Oman and Qatar - all considered valuable allies in the so-called global war on terror - were added to the category deemed the worst offenders in "modern-day slavery," in the annual U.S. State Department report on human trafficking.
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