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Marines head to Haiti!!!
EFLFifty U.S. Marines are being deployed to Haiti on Monday, NBC News has learned, as rebels said they will soon attack the capital after over-running Haitiâs second-largest city on Sunday. The takeover was the biggest victory of a bloody uprising to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. NBCâs Jim Miklaszewski, reporting from the Pentagon, said the U.S. ambassador in Haiti had requested the Marines. U.S. officials said the 50-man team, trained in counterterrorism, will join a dozen Marines already in Haiti to provide additional security for the embassy. Pentagon and military officials are still reviewing plans for a possible emergency airlift of some 300 U.S. government staff from Haiti if necessary, but as of Monday morning there had been no decision to issue an evacuation order, Miklaszewski said. Posted by: Dragon Fly 2004-02-23 |
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