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What do Arabs owning horse farms in Lexington, Kentucky have in common with terrorist funding, child tracfficking and GOP House Judiciary Committee Chairman all have in common?

Jack Abramoff!
Better start connecting the dots, folks.
This story is JUST beginning:

>"Washington—September 15, 2006

Dubai ruler sued in U.S. for small boy slavery ring—Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum was served this week in a Lexington, Kentucky court alleging he enslaved thousands of small boys as camel jockeys according to an AP report. The U.S.-based suit was filed as a class action alleging that Mohammed and his brother were part of a conspiracy "to buy boys in the slave trade, hold them in bondage in brutal camps in the desert" as part of a flourishing camel racing sport among Arab sheikhs. The lawsuit reportedly detailed information involving thousands of boys as young as four years old who were prized because they weighed less than 44 pounds. Sheikh Mohammed's personal 747 aircraft was parked at Bluegrass Airport this week in Lexington but AP has not reported whether evidence exists regarding young boys being trafficked out of Lexington since the sheikh was reportedly purchasing thoroughbred yearlings. "Children trafficked to the Gulf states in the Middle East are forced to race camels of the entertainment elite," said a recent U.S. State Department report, adding, "these children were training under the shadow of Dubai's skyline in early 2005." The government of the United Arab Emirates "has failed to take significant action to address its [child] trafficking problems and to protect victims," the report also stated. The revelations add to other reports linking Dubai to terrorist banking, control of U.S. ports and a prominent House member's promise to promote Islamic banking in America."

Some of the story here, not mainstream <YET.>

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