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   "Pogrom"  wrote in message   
   news:JaidnS-Y6ovVNADXnZ2dnUVZ_tydnZ2d@giganews.com...   
   > SHYLOCK LIVES! LOTS OF SHYLOCKS!!   
   > All the phony consternation by Israel concerning the Swedes and the story   
   > of the JEW army people stealing organs from Palestinian soldiers.  Now   
   > this:   
      
   What is it with you shrills working in government posing as Jew haters or   
   neo-nazi skin heads. Grow up kooks...Get off the programed juice, as your   
   claims are right out their in junk science..   
      
   These that were arrested were working for the israeli government, and there   
   is nothing to tell   
   Organ harvesting allegations are very profiable, as it was in China,   
   governments all around the world are making it a big bussiness these days,   
   as the only thing what can be argued is that Sweden missed an opportunity to   
   "reject anti-Semitism and reaffirm principles of good journalism."   
      
   The story you claim relies heavily on the author's eyewitness account of a   
   tense night on the West Bank seventeen years ago. Recall of the details of   
   an event deteriorates over a matter of weeks or months and concurrent stress   
   such as the presence of gunfire serves as a 'memory distraction' that makes   
   accurate recall even more difficult.   
      
   Nonetheless the author describes for us what happened in 1992 to one   
   Palestinian teenager whose organs, he believes, were stolen. According to   
   his account, Israeli soldiers shot the young guy in the chest, then in each   
   leg, then once 'in the stomach.'   
      
   I take this last to mean the abdomen, since it isn't possible to see the   
   individual organ called the stomach from the outside of the body.   
      
   A gunshot wound to the chest or abdomen is a serious injury because it can   
   damage internal organs- either by interruption of the blood supply, which   
   causes hemorrhage, or because it causes infection via perforation of the   
   intestine and/or the introduction of a foreign body. A guy shot in both legs   
   can't go far. Why, if the goal is to steal organs worth hundreds of   
   thousands of dollars, would soldiers shoot an individual in both the chest   
   and abdomen and risk damage to the valuable organs in these body cavities?   
   Such organs are not usable for transplant.   
      
   The quality of the argument does not merit too much more ink. The writer of   
   the Aftonbladet article made his most important contribution to our   
   understanding of his work when he acknowledged that he'd not verified any of   
   the claims he made. Most recently, the family of the young Palestinian whose   
   organs were supposedly swiped said they'd never talked with the journalist   
   and had no reason to think any of his allegations of organ theft were true.   
      
   As much as I enjoy the medical side of things, I think there's a more   
   instructive reading of this article. When I look at it with historical eyes,   
   it has a macabre humour of its own. Is this writer serious? This story is   
   such an old one, a twenty-first century version of the blood libel that has   
   fueled brutality against Jews for centuries. The Aftonbladet piece made much   
   of the story of the recent corruption bust in New Jersey that snared a   
   couple of disgraced rabbis allegedly brokering human organs for cash. How is   
   it that an American scandal that resulted in the arrest of 30 people, among   
   them elected officials with the last names van Pelt, Cammarano, Elwell, and   
   Vega, ends up a Scandinavian-modern version of medieval anti-Semitism?   
      
   Oh and just so you know, CNN is now run by the Pentagon to put forth news   
   stories to help the cause rather then harm the governments agenda   
   (CNN) - The Pentagon is profiling reporters covering the war in Afghanistan.   
      
   The newspaper "Stars and Stripes" reports that despite denials from the   
   Pentagon, they are in fact rating the work of reporters as either "positive"   
   , "neutral" or "negative". They're contracting this work out to a private   
   p.r. outfit called The Rendon Group, which has come under fire before for   
   its work in the Iraq war.   
      
   Profiles of various reporters suggest these ratings are meant to help   
   manipulate the kinds of stories that reporters come up with while they're   
   embedded with troops. For example, one newspaper reporter is rated as   
   "neutral to positive" in his coverage. The report suggests any negative   
   stories he writes "could possibly be neutralized" by feeding him quotes from   
   military brass.   
      
   Earlier this week, the Pentagon denied a story that appeared in "Stars and   
   Stripes" saying "There is no policy that stipulates in any way that   
   embedding should be based in any way on a person's work". Both the Defense   
   Department and Rendon even denied a rating system exists.   
      
   Meanwhile, this latest revelation comes as polls show the war in Afghanistan   
   is becoming less popular among the American people. Journalism groups and   
   media ethicists are criticizing the Pentagon's efforts to rate and   
   manipulate reporters. One military official says "it shows utter contempt   
   for the Constitution." And contracting the work out to a civilian firm is   
   even more odious.   
      
      
   >   
   > Donor says he got thousands for his kidney   
   >   
   >     * Story Highlights   
   >     * CNN investigating what appears to be a widespread black market in   
   > human organs   
   >     * Israeli man says he received $20,000 for his kidney   
   >     * He says he lied to the hospital about the money he received   
   >     * 10 percent of kidney transplants worldwide are thought to be   
   > illegal   
   >   
   > By Drew Griffin and David Fitzpatrick   
   > CNN Special Investigations Unit   
   >   
   > Editor's note: Since the FBI arrested a Brooklyn businessman in late July   
   > on federal charges of organ trafficking, CNN has been conducting a   
   > worldwide investigation into the sale of kidneys using willing donors and   
   > willing recipients from China to Israel to the United States.   
   >   
   > TEL AVIV, Israel (CNN) -- Four years ago, a young, cash-starved Israeli   
   > answered an ad in a newspaper for a kidney donor.   
   >   
   > "I decided I wanted to make a positive change in my life and do something   
   > different," Nick Rosen told CNN. "So I saw an ad in the paper and it   
   > said, 'Kidney Donor Wanted.' And called the ad in the paper, and they   
   > asked me my blood type."   
   >   
   > Ultimately, Rosen flew to New York and underwent surgery at Mount Sinai   
   > Medical Center to remove one of his two healthy kidneys.   
   >   
   > "Let's say I donated a kidney and received compensation," he said.   
   >   
   > Rosen's story is one of several that have come to light in recent weeks   
   > as part of a worldwide CNN investigation into what appears to be a   
   > widespread black market in human organs currently under scrutiny by   
   > authorities in the United States and Israel.   
   >   
      
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