May 14, 2010 -0900 As a result of Preval’s meeting with Mulet and his secret meeting, the day before, two MINUSTAH members were kidnapped by Preval-controlled gang members. This action was not reported by the international media….but was widely reported by Haitian media. First step to show Haiti is too unstable for any thought...
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Archive for May 15th, 2010
FLASH – AGAIN!!! TWO MINUSTAH PEOPLE KIDNAPPED AS RESULT OF PREVAL’S EARLIER ST STRATEGY MEETINGS.
The brigadier who saved Sierra Leone
In 2002, Sierra Leone emerged from a decade-long civil war and as Allan Little discovers, much of it was thanks to a little-known British brigadier. The Paras had been sent to Freetown to simply evacuate foreigners It was an astonishing thing to witness: the fortunes of a whole country transformed in the space of...
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Haiti Stakes Recovery on Clothiers -Added COMMENTARY By Haitian-Truth
By IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN And DAVID LUHNOW CARREFOUR, Haiti—Strolling the floor of the T-shirt factory he manages, Alexandre Petion stopped at the sewing table of a worker who was looking dazed and moving slowly. He asked why. “I’m afraid,” the seamstress, Lucienne Loza, replied. More than 300 of Ms. Loza’s co-workers were crushed to...
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Eight U.S. Troops Will Remain in Haiti, Down From 20,000+
Within days of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the U.S. military had staged an impressive surge: By the end of January, around 20,000 troops were on the ground, or just offshore, like these sailors from the USS Bataan. More were on the way. And it looked like they might be there to stay....
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