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A report about child trafficking in Iraq identified the main countries into which children are sold as Jordan, Turkey, Syria, Switzerland, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Portugal and Sweden. The assertion appeared next to comments from an Iraqi police officer. However, information about these destinations was provided by an anonymous source involved in child trafficking who was quoted later in the story, and we have not been able to verify his claims in relation to all of the European countries listed. A 2007 report by the Heartland Alliance refers to evidence that trafficked women and children from Iraq were destined for five European countries: Turkey, Greece, Italy, France and the UK (Babies for sale: trafficking crisis grows as gangs exploit poor Iraqi families and corrupt system, 6 April, page 14). Link
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