Prostitution ordeal of Iraqi girls (BBC)

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By Lina Sinjab
BBC News, Damascus

With their bright neon signs and glitzy decor, dozens of nightclubs line the streets of the Maraba district in the Syrian capital Damascus.

It's here that men come from far and wide - car number plates are not just from Syria but Iraq and Saudi Arabia - to watch young women dancing.

Most of the dancers are teenagers and many of them are Iraqi refugees.

They dance for the cash which gets tossed onto the stage.

The dancers are surrounded by bodyguards, to stop them being touched by the men. But the guards also arrange for their charges to be paid for sex with members of the audience.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7119473.stm

[Mabus]

1. I know better than to open threads like these

but I can't help it. The situation is so heartbreaking. It's no surprise that W mentioned the SE Asian sex trade in one of his SOTU speeches and then, because of his "policies" there is an epidemic of prostitution that he helped cause.