Saudi Arabia says those who are most exposed to ISIS recruitment are… runaway expat maids.

Saudi Arabia says those who are most exposed to ISIS recruitment are… runaway expat maids. (AN).

JEDDAH: Runaway and illegal workers are in danger of being exploited by terrorist groups, according to experts. These workers, especially women, are the most vulnerable to exploitation by terrorist groups such as Daesh, according to the government’s security agencies, a local publication reported.

The Ministry of Labor’s annual report recently stated that 86,549 domestic workers have absconded from their employers, with women making up 60 percent of this number. Will: This means: 51,929 women are on the run? Hard to believe such a huge number.

Brig. Saad Al-Shahrani, dean of admissions and registration at Naif Arab University for Security Sciences, said many of these workers are illiterate or have basic education, which make them ideal targets for terrorists because they can be manipulated into taking up arms and carrying out attacks.

He said many workers run away from their sponsors because they are lured by better money and jobs. They are often assisted by compatriots. “Foreign women workers on the run are more easily exploited by these terrorist groups.

“Women also move easily between cities because they are subjected to fewer security checks. This is probably why we need to employ women at check points to deal with this weakness in our system,” he said.

Sultan Al-Anqari, former director general for crime research at the Ministry of Interior, said it was important to clarify the nature and objectives of these terrorist organizations. “Daesh and other terrorist groups are in fact all mercenary militias consisting of foreigners working for money, with the support of foreign states aiming to destabilize the Arab world.”

Al-Anqari added: “They are only using religion as camouflage so that they can attract simple-minded people and use them as tools to achieve their plans in the Middle East. They have tried and failed to implement other plans in the region.”

He said illegal workers are easy to recruit, especially women, who often need a safe place to stay and work. These women are then used to sell drugs, sell themselves and forced to beg, all activities that can be used to fund terrorist organizations.

He said Daesh members are unlikely to recruit Saudi women because they fear they may be reported to the authorities. Hmmmm......I'm sure the abuse suffered by these maids has nothing to do with them fleeing this 'Paradise on Earth'.

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Russian activists say have freed 12 human "slaves" from shop.

Russian activists say have freed 12 human "slaves" from shop.(Yahoo).MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian human rights activists said on Friday they had freed 12 Central Asians held captive as modern-day slaves in the basement of a Moscow food store, some of them for as long as a decade.
The allegations - which are being investigated by the authorities - could not immediately be confirmed independently, but activists said they were consistent with reports of hundreds of thousands of such "slaves".
"Six years ago, a survey on human trafficking was conducted at the U.N.'s request and said that there are half a million to one million people in Russia who are practically living as slaves here," said rights activist Danila Medvedev.
Activists said they had handed in statements on the case to investigators, but that no one had yet been arrested.
Witnesses said a child of four had been among those rescued from the store on the outskirts of the Russian capital, which attracts many migrant workers from former Soviet republics in Central Asia such as Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
A total of three young children, five women and four men had been freed in the raid, which took place on Tuesday, said activists.
Another woman was not freed, however, and a 14-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy who had ran away earlier were still missing, they said.
Two of the female rescued workers said they had been held captive for more than 10 years and forced to work in the shop. They said they had been regularly beaten and threatened to prevent them escaping.

Leila Ashirova said she thought many people were aware of their fate.
"I think in the area, everybody was in on it," she said. "I think they were given bribes to stay quiet".
The captives tried to escape several times and begged customers to help but people pretended to help only to call their captors instead, the freed workers said.
Kasimova said she had been raped and claimed they had witnessed one woman being beaten to death after she had tried to escape.
Activists said the captives included related family members, and children who were born into forced labor. Two children had allegedly been taken away by their captors, who later claimed they had died. Their whereabouts remain unknown.
Rights activist Danila Medvedev said the Russian authorities were unwilling to face the fact that there might be slavery in Russia.
"There might be 50,000 or 100,000 such slaves in Moscow, but as our law enforcement agencies are totally censoring the word 'slavery' and are denying that this problem exists, we don't know how many of them there are in reality," he said.
The shop's owners had several other stores, he said, saying between 20 and 40 women could still be imprisoned by them.Read the full story here.