amigocabal

Arrest in organ trafficking ring
From correspondents in Sao Paulo, Brazil
January 16, 2004

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.

Agence France-Presse

bill levinson

It would seem much simpler to shoot a lot of Hamas terrorists through
their heads and then harvest their organs, thus compelling them to save
human lives instead of taking them. It would be no different than
killing genetically-modified pigs for transplant organs. In fact, it
would be more humane because pigs are fairly intelligent animals and
some people keep them as pets.


--Bill

http://www.omdurman.org/

torresd

That is the most despicable, vile thing you have ever uttered, Bill
Levinson!

The Nazi's were wrong and so are you.

adam helberg

Bill is right. Pigs are innocent, mass murderers are not.

Adam

amigocabal

This has alredy been done by Dr. Mengele! It did not work for him!

amigocabal

Since half of Israel are mass murderers, they should all end up on the
chopping block

amiro123

I just wonder if amigocabal really cares about preventing such crimes
or is he posting it just because there is an Israeli involved.

It seems that if the 'bad guy' here was not Israeli then amigocabal
wouldn't really care for such crimes and the suffering of the victims,
neither he would care for Israelies that fall victims to this crime
too.

As far as Israelies see this crime, it doesn't matter if the criminals
are Israeli or not: punish the bastards! their actions speek for
themselves and their nationality is irrelevant.

passerby

Oh yeah baby yeah! Those wonderful hamas guys are so cute and they only kill
Jews. You can't possibly call them murderers, that's a vile thing to say.

However I am against harvesting their organs too. If I had a choice of
having an organ from one of those abominations, I'd rather die.
Merciful to the wicked is wicked to the merciful.

bill levinson

It's admittedly a lot like what China does with political prisoners so I
find it somewhat distasteful.

On the other hand, these monsters kill and maim innocent civilians right
and left. Why not try a literal eye for eye and see how they like it? If
they blow off limbs and rupture organs with their homicide bombs, I have
no moral problem with slaughtering them and harvesting their organs to
make their victims (or people like their victims) whole. Since they (the
terrorists) should be killed anyway, why not get some use out of them?


--Bill

http://www.omdurman.org/

david t

But not your liver. You do too many drugs and drink too much...