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Thread ID: 11942 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2004-01-18
2004-01-18 03:31 | User Profile
[I]Isn't it strange that the article made no mention of the organs that were and are being stolen by the Israelis from freshly-killed Palestinians?[/I]
[I]I would guess that a large percentage of the "black market" organs were obtained for free instead of paying "donors" thousands of dollars each for them. I would also guess that there are no Jewish people waiting in line for transplants of organs that might have been taken from Palestinians (how Kosher would [B]that[/B] be?), but that most of the transplants are being performed by Jewish doctors in every country.[/I]
[I]This Mid East situation gets more and more sickening.[/I]
[B][URL=http://heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,8405149%5E1702,00.html]Arrest in organ trafficking ring[/URL][/B] From correspondents in Sao Paulo, Brazil 16jan04
A RETIRED Israeli army officer under arrest in Brazil on suspicion of belonging to an international human kidney trafficking ring has told a court the Israeli government financed organ transplants, press reports said today.
Geldaya Tauber Gady told a court that Israel financed organ transplants in other countries, primarily South Africa, through national health services. Organ transplants are not illegal in Israel. But due to religious objections mainly by ultra-orthodox Jews, there is a critical lack of organ donors in Israel, and patients in need of a transplant are usually obliged to travel abroad.
Gady told the court that an Israeli government official, identified only as Ilan, put him in touch with an intermediary in Brazil, retired military police captain Ivan Bonifacio da Silva.
The police captain was also arrested in Recife in northeastern Brazil.
"The Israeli government is aware of the traffic in organs for patients in its country and pays for all transactions through four health plans," the daily O Globo quoted Gady as telling the court.
"I never thought the Israeli government was financing anything illegal," he said. "I was only helping people in need. The people who are selling kidneys are in dire straits and living in nauseating conditions. There are very many parties concerned. There are over 100 of them."
Da Silva, questioned yesterday by a parliamentary investigating committee of the northeastern state of Pernambuca, said the organ trafficking network operated in at least eight countries.
He said transplants were performed in a hospital in Durban, South Africa, on Israeli, Iranian and American recipients using organs from Brazilian, Russian and Romanian donors.
Since last month, Brazilian police have arrested 10 Brazilians and two Israelis accused of organ trafficking, all of them jailed in Pernambuca's capital, Recife.
After medical exams and tests to determine blood compatibility with the recipients, the donors were flown to Durban where organs to be donated were removed. They were each paid an average $US10,000 ($13,000), according to court testimony.
The organs were then sold to the recipients for up to $US120,000 ($155,000) each.
Brazilian police said they had located 22 such donors, all living in poverty-stricken areas around Recife. Brazilian law prohibits the sale of organs, even with the donor's consent. The law allows free organ donation only after the donor's death, and with consent of his family, although exceptions are made for donations between living persons, usually within the same family.
2004-01-18 13:08 | User Profile
Once Dr. Rosen of New York's Mt. Sinai hospital determines that investment banker Sol Goldstein needs a new kidney, that's it.
2004-01-21 01:27 | User Profile
I take it Kminta is being partially tongue in cheek.
...transplants were performed in a hospital in Durban, South Africa, on Israeli, Iranian and American recipients...
We all know exactly which tribe the recipients belong to. You can also bet tribal members get pushed or buy their way to the top of recipient lists in the US depending on the hospital.
2004-01-21 06:44 | User Profile
If you throw in that an abnormal number of children are snipered (1 shot 1 kill) and head shots to boot. Add in the extra value childrens organs have. Now you have a real nasty picture.