US forces deploy in north Haiti

[DoYouEverWonder]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3537499.stm

Friday, 5 March, 2004

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Information from outside Port-au-Prince is patchy, but US Marines appear to have begun moving into rebel strongholds in the north.

Special teams from the Miami-based US Southern Command arrived in Cap-Haitien, on the northern coast, and Gonaives, on the western coast, a spokesman for the US forces was quoted as saying.

Aid agencies said they had heard of the marines reaching Gonaives and as far north as Port-de-Paix.

US Marines say they are not trying to impose stability, but are "supporting" Haitian police.

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Meanwhile, in Port-au-Prince, the dust is slowly settling after the unrestrained killings, arson and looting of a week ago, the UN children's fund (Unicef) told BBC News Online.



Anyone notice that Bu$h has deployed US troops into another war zone and he hasn't even address the nation or bothered to ask Congress?

[stepnw1f]

1. How sickening

And we have to find this out from the UK?! WTF?!?!?!?!

[Tinoire]

2. What police??! There is no police! That was Aristide's police

which was trying to arrest rebels, killers, thugs and drug dealers. They're all in hiding now.

Surely they meant to say rebels. :(