Chris Adams

Salon has an interesting article about military contractors in Bosnia and the sex-slave industry. As members of the occupationpeacekeeping force, they're above local law enforcement and the military's law enforcement hasn't interfered with private contractors, leading to some revolting behaviour:

Ben Johnston recoiled in horror when he heard one of his fellow helicopter mechanics at a U.S. Army base near Tuzla, Bosnia, brag one day in early 2000: "My girl's not a day over 12."

The man who uttered the statement -- a man in his 60s, by Johnston's estimate -- was not talking fondly about his granddaughter or daughter or another relative. He was bragging about the preteen he had purchased from a local brothel.