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[RC] Camel Racing: More grist for the mill - Maryanne Stroud GabbaniA useful exercise would be to google (wonderful new verb) "camel jockeys" and see what comes up. You will find 10,400 hits for this and most of them are about the boys. This was not exactly a breaking story. In the first two pages of the list there are these gems. Please note that one of these is a USAID pdf file using 1997 data. Why did they wait so long to make a fuss is maybe the better question? There is no question that this is an evil but why is it suddenly important now? Inquiring minds want to know.<x-tad-bigger>www.iearn.org.au/clp/write93.htm</x-tad-bigger> from a website that was last updated in 2003 <x-tad-bigger>www.antislavery.org/archive/ submission/submission2000-Camel.htm - 16k </x-tad-bigger> <x-tad-bigger>www.usaid.gov/bd/files/</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>camel</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>jock.pdf (Source: Electronic Telegraph -- Issue 920 -- Sunday 30, November 1997) </x-tad-bigger> Foreign Correspondent - 25/02/2003: United Arab Emirates - Camel ... <x-tad-bigger>...</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> United Arab Emirates - </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Camel</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>Jockeys</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>. Broadcast: 25/02/2003. Reporter: Geoff Thompson. </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>... </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> In </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>camel</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> racing it appears everyone wins except the </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>jockeys</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>. </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>...</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger> </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s789268.htm </x-tad-bigger> Maryanne Stroud Gabbani Cairo, Egypt www.alsorat.com http://miloflamingo.blogspot.com
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