Lifestyle > Train of Thought

No military help for Haiti

<< < (3/5) > >>

M Dogg™:

--- Quote from: I-Yoof on February 19, 2004, 05:30:24 AM ---
--- Quote from: M Dogg on February 18, 2004, 07:45:14 PM ---
both so true. so in our governments minds, it don't exist.

--- End quote ---

If it doesn't exist then how could they be commenting on it you filthy, gypsy half breed.

--- End quote ---

Half breed, no need for name calling, state your point and prove me wrong. But for reals, no economical gain, then we would put our effort in it. Chuuuuch

white Boy:
u got played max

JTSimon:

--- Quote from: white boy on February 19, 2004, 02:00:28 PM ---u got played max

--- End quote ---


--- Code: ---Senior military and Bush administration officials have said there is no plans to resolve the rebellion in Haiti through the use of military force.
--- End code ---

How did I get played...Operation Haiti Freedom is not in the works.

Woodrow:
Maxi-pad is Always getting played...

If we were to send troops, he'd be yapping about "Why does america think it's the worlds police?"

If we don't sent troops its because: "We only care about oil"

Woodrow:
50 U.S. Marines head to embassy in Haiti

(CNN) -- A team of 50 U.S. Marines is en route to Haiti in response to a security request from the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, Pentagon officials told CNN Monday.

The Marines have been sent to the embassy in Port-au-Prince to secure the compound as rebels continue to make advances in that country.

Pentagon sources said the elite contingent of Marines does not portend a large-scale military intervention in Haiti, but instead is intended solely to ensure the safety of embassy personnel.

The soldiers, trained in counterterrorism, would add to a Marine security detachment already based at the embassy. They are part of a Fleet Anti-Terrorism Support Team, known as a "FAST" team. These troops are trained for missions such as securing the Navy's fleet as well as embassies when security becomes an issue.

This past weekend, the U.S. State Department ordered the departure of all family members and nonemergency personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince.

"We decided it is essential to take out nonessential personnel until the situation is more stable," a senior State Department official said.

The United States has issued a travel warning telling American citizens it is unsafe to remain in Haiti and to leave while commercial flights are still available.

The U.S. Embassy was shut Monday, a spokeswoman said from her home. All staff were urged to remain at home, she said.

Meanwhile, Haiti's government sent reinforcements to Cap Haitien after rebels seeking to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide moved into the country's second-largest city Sunday, storming police headquarters and freeing prisoners.

A government source told CNN the rebels had withdrawn from Cap Haitien by Sunday evening, but witnesses and journalists said gunfire could still be heard around the city.

Aristide told a crowd at a celebration in Port-au-Prince that additional police would be sent to Cap Haitien, on the northern coast.

The government source said the reinforcements were on their way Sunday afternoon.

With a population of about 500,000, Cap Haitien is the Aristide government's last stronghold in northern Haiti.

Walter Eussenius, owner of the Mont Joli Hotel in Cap Haitien, said rebels moved into the city about 10 a.m. Sunday.

"The population is terrorized and the city is completely surrounded," Eussenius told CNN in a telephone interview. Machine gun fire could be heard in the background as he spoke.

Eussenius said he drove three miles to the airport and was told that rebels had taken over the facility and tried to hijack an airplane.

The account backed up a Dominican pilot, who said men armed with machetes boarded a plane in Cap Haitien and forced the pilot to fly to Port-au-Prince.

"We called one of our managers from over there who says there was shooting and the airport is closed," said the pilot, Ricardo Faustela. "So right now we are not flying, and we don't know what is happening."

The Red Cross estimates more than 50 people have been killed since the rebellion erupted February 5 in the city of Gonaives. The rebels say Aristide's government is corrupt and are calling for new elections.

Aristide's supporters set up roadblocks and barricades Sunday on the road between Gonaives and Bon Repos, where a large group of heavily armed men attacked a police station Saturday night.

Police said a civilian was killed and an officer was grazed in the head with a bullet. Bon Repos residents said the incursion was the first in the town, which is on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.

Sunday's violence came the morning after an international delegation left Haiti, having failed to persuade Aristide's political opposition to agree to a U.S.-backed power-sharing plan to resolve the tensions.

Aristide had agreed to the plan, but the opposition said it would accept nothing short of his resignation.

The international envoys told reporters Saturday they had given Haiti's political opposition until 5 p.m. Monday to accept or reject the plan.

The proposal calls for the appointment of a new prime minister acceptable to both sides, a bipartisan Cabinet, new elections to be overseen by international observers and the disarming of militias.

Aristide, a former priest, has faced criticism since an election in 2000 that observers called fraudulent.

Opposition parties accuse his supporters of using violence to intimidate them. He has said repeatedly that he will not willingly step aside until his term of office expires in 2006.

The situation has prompted U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to decide to appoint a special adviser to Haiti.

Nearly 40,000 Haitians fled the country after a 1991 coup that ousted Aristide, who was restored to power in 1994 after U.S. military intervention.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/23/haiti.revolt/index.html

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page