SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — 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 here said.

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 ...

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200401/ai_kepm352375

Unfortunately most counties in the world have drug propblems, even the GREAT IRAN.

FEATURE-Iran, like the West, has a drugs problem
Wed May 23, 2007 2:04pm EDT
TEHRAN, May 23 (Reuters) - Young Iranians queue for methadone to help end years of drug addiction. Elsewhere in the building, a pale, bearded man lies motionless on a bed, his eyes closed, after starting detoxification.

In the yellow brick building in downtown Tehran, an Iranian non-governmental organisation is helping people kick the habit and fighting narcotics abuse that blights hundreds of thousands of Iranians' lives, and wrecks families.

The scale of drug abuse in Iran, which straddles a major smuggling route, is a problem the conservative Islamic state shares with the United States and its other Western foes -- and one that seems to be growing.

"We are very busy here," said nurse Mariam Zahab, preparing small packets of white methadone powder for those waiting for their weekly dose of heroin or opium substitute in the clinic run by the Aftab (sunshine) Society.

"It is a big problem and it is growing, we see it, we experience it," said the middle-aged woman dressed in a loose-fitting hijab, sitting behind a wooden desk in Aftab's spartan premises.

Iran shares a 900-km (560-mile) border with Afghanistan, the world's number one producer of the opium poppy which is the key ingredient for heroin. Opium production there rose by as much as 50 percent last year to supply more than 90 percent of global heroin, according to a United Nations estimate.

One of Aftab's patients said it was now easier to find narcotics in Tehran than alcohol -- also banned in Iran.

"I've used drugs for 18 years -- cannabis, opium and heroin," said Vahid, 35, like others here wary of giving his full name. "It is very cheap."

NUMBERS UP, AGES DOWN

The United Nations' top anti-drugs official in Tehran said an estimated 1.2 to 2 million people from a total population of 70 million in Iran take drugs.

"Iran is experiencing increased pressure from traffickers," said Roberto Arbitrio, representative in Iran of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

Thousands of Iranian police have been killed in clashes with heavily armed smugglers since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, but heroin and opium keep flowing across the eastern border.

Experts say availability and affordability -- coupled with a lack of jobs and poor economic prospects for many among Iran's growing young population -- are factors fuelling consumption.

"This is very dangerous; the statistics go up, and the ages go down," said Aftab head Parviz Maleki.

The authorities are signalling determination to crack down, fortifying the remote frontier with Afghanistan and Pakistan by building long embankments of rock and earth and digging deep ditches in an attempt to stop the criminal gangs.

"For years ... we have witnessed an increase in drug smuggling," a senior official at the Iranian prosecutor's office, Nasser Seraj, told the Mehr news agency.

As part of another campaign, addicts who do not turn themselves in for voluntary treatment will be rounded up and taken to camps in Tehran and elsewhere, Iranian media reported.

Arbitrio said Iran was stepping up its anti-drugs efforts and had developed relatively advanced strategies for prevention and treatment, a system supported by a network of non-governmental organisations like Aftab.

"POCKET-MONEY TO BUY OPIUM"

Established in 1998, Aftab says it was the first Iranian NGO set up against narcotics use after the revolution 28 years ago. It has several branches in Iran, with volunteers including doctors and psychologists.

It receives funding from Iranian government-run charities and also charges patients what it describes as a small fee which, it says, deters them from relapsing.

Still, the number of people it treats -- over 900 last year -- represents only a fraction of Iranian addicts.

"We've had many successes but, sure, it is not enough," Maleki said.

Hamid, Vahid's younger brother, said a friend of his father gave him drugs for the first time in the early 1990s. "I was 14. I was curious," he said.

"I used pocket-money to buy opium, spending 70,000 rials (about $8) a week," said the fit-looking 29-year-old, his fresh face showing little sign of the abuse.

That amount quickly adds up in a country where a school teacher may earn just $300 a month.

Fear of the future, parental pressure and lack of money led the brothers to quit a few months ago after several failed attempts.

But still they prefer to spend time at Aftab to stay away from temptation on the streets of the Iranian capital. "It was very hard to stop and every day is a struggle," said Vahid.

Doctor Mohammad Ali Shahraki said most of his patients at Aftab were between 15 and 25 years old, many of them using relatively new drugs in Iran such as crack and ecstasy.

"Stigma and guilt make addiction complicated and difficult to fight," he said. "We cannot overcome this problem. Our goal is to reduce the harm and prevent dangerous side effects such as HIV."

There are LEGIONS of "chosen" "israeli" drug dealers.....scurrying around planet earth's sink hole... like cock roaches....

Picking on Iran again? Another reason to kill her children? dazia, you vampire, you and your tribe would look for any excuse to suck blood.

Let me guess, all of the cockroach Jews have emmigrated to Afganistan to grow the poppy plant and control the largest opium drug trade in the world. Is that whats going on? Is it allowed in Islam to harvest drugs and sell them? Clearly, the Jews must own Afganistan.

4:33 minutes

In Los Angeles 1997, a major local state and federal drug investigation sours. The suspects: Israeli organized crime with operations in New York, Miami, Los Vegas, Canada, “israel”, and Egypt. The allegations: Cocaine and Ecstasy trafficking, and sophisticated white-collar credit card and computer fraud.

“The organization has apparent extensive access to database systems to identify pertinent personal and biographical information…”

History Of Zionists And Drugs

Gee...guess I'm not the only one who still believes in vampires.

You still haven't addressed the fact that an Arab country is growing and cultivating the crop knowing that they are doing business with Jews (if you know about it, they certainly know about it) and assisting in the distribution of drugs. I'm sure both are frowned upon in the Arab world. Or is it ok to do it and blame the Jews for the world problems. Please address Afganistan's role in this issue, not the evil empire who controls the world. We already know and heard about that.
Thanks,
Dazia

First of all, Afghanis are not Arabs.

Second, if it weren't for greedy zionists (Who call themselves Jews but are not and who control the monetary supplies in several countries and finance these drug trades), greedy people (who call themselves Muslims but are not) would have no one to sell their drugs to.

Moreover, these same greedy zionists are the ones who push for perpetual wars in Afghanistan, which leaves the population impoverished and extremely vulnerable to corruption and exploitation.

So, yes - some Muslims in the population are to blame for participating in the drug trade with their zionist paymasters. But, that does not absolve zionists of their share of the blame for the global drug trade both inside and outside of Afghanistan.

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"Money" has no value - people do.

Thank you for clearing this thing up qrswave. If I understand you correctly, there are good jews and zionists and bad muslims and good muslims. That helps. So all of these comments about Jews being vampires and demeaning other religions perhaps do not apply to all of the Jews, just zionists. I guess we can follow this through by saying that the muslims that are blowing up train stations in Spain and the UK and the Muslims that blow up Egypian resorts at Sharma Sheik are bad muslims while the muslims fighting Israeli soldiers and zionists in Israel may be perceived as good Muslims. Now, is it ok for good Muslims to blow up Israeli women and children in an Israeli restaurant? If so, then good Muslims can essentially do anything and be justified.

Reading this person's Dazia's ignorant obfuscations would be comical if it weren't so tragic-- the tragedy being that he/she/IT undoubtedly buys into all the lying jew propaganda, &c. Get a clue Dazed 'n Confused, before it's too late.

http://www.realjewnews.com/

It would be nice if just once you and your kind could offer something that isn’t the same mush repeated over and over. It’s bad enough that Jews lie, but they never change their lies. They’re worse than evil; they’re boring.

Is there any chance you could break out of the mold and become imaginative in your comments? What you’ve contributed so far is the same gibberish put out by the zio-media. We’ve heard it all before, a thousand times.

I would enjoy seeing something from you that is researched, or has web links. Then you might be worth debating.

Actually, it may a'ready be too late for you Dizzard-- just as the UK and Spain subway bombing were jew black flag operations blamed by your media, &c. on Muslims, so too was 9/11 (obviously), and just about every other 'suicidde bombing', &c. perpetrated throughout the warld today.. your sathan-worshiping kind is doomed-- ONE WAY or T'OTHER..

If the Jews were so powerful in the world, why would they settle for a tiny shitty piece of desert with no natural resources and surrounded by a bunch of counties who hate its existence? Why wouldn't they take Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the remaing oil rich counties, Japan, Jordan, Russia, China and all of Africa? Theoretically, the Jews have been controlling the world for atleast 60 years. They have all of the money, control the media and the strongest super power in the world. Why settle? Maybe because the Jews have been in the land known as Israel for over 4000 years and have an equal claim to the land. Perhaps you haven't really thought this through. BTW, these are my final thoughts. Later.

it's now called FREE_LAND.