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...same documents that discipline and morale at the lab in the early 1990s were a mess. USAMRIID at the time was roiled by alleged racial and sexual harassment, factions warring over the lab's leadership, accusations of incompetence and even theft of research. One particularly nasty clique formed a "Camel Club," whose symbol was a toy camel outfitted with outsize sex organs and whose members wrote lewd limericks mocking co-workers and sponsored notorious hot-tub parties. In short, USAMRIID had become a breeding ground of resentment and hateful high jinks...
...documents, says he got a call last year from security reporting a power outage in a freezer; when Assaad explained he had not worked there in years, the guard said his was the only name on the security roster. Assaad also complains that he was the chief target of Camel Club harassment. The Army has confirmed the charge and issued an apology...
...missing samples, 26 have been tracked down, he maintains, and in any case, they had all been inactivated and were no longer infectious. As for the Animal House behavior, Eitzen chalks it up to a small group of people who have since been disciplined. (Says one unrepentant former Camel Club member: "What I did on my own time is nobody's business...
...Mama San is right: there is no shortage of kids for sale. Across Asia, tens of thousands of children are peddled into slavery each year. Some toil with their families as bonded laborers on farms. Others are sold by their parents - or tricked by agents - into servitude as camel jockeys, fisher boys or beggars. In Burma, some are kidnapped by the state and forced to become soldiers. And, according to the International Labor Organization, at least 1 million children are prostitutes, with the greatest numbers in Thailand, India, Taiwan and the Philippines. It's a growing problem, fueled...
...Smuggled on false documents to Dubai from Karachi airport, the brothers were put on a regimen of white beans, and beaten regularly. They joined many other boys: the camel jockeys are kept in desert houses in groups of 20. Barefoot and sleeping together on mattresses on the floor, they exercised and grazed the camels 18 hours a day. During races, falls are frequent and the boys are often injured or even trampled to death. Yousuf, who has racing scars on his hands, ankles and chin, describes the routine: "The sheiks would drive along with the camels and give us instructions...