| Haiti, the original quagmire. |
 PORT-AU-PRINCE - A Jordanian soldier with the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti was shot dead during a patrol in Port-au-Prince, a source close to the Jordanian contingent told AFP on Sunday. The soldier was killed on Saturday in the huge Cite Soleil shanty town in the Haitian capital. Seven members with the UN mission in Haiti have been killed since the force was deployed in June 2004. A Canadian police officer in the force was killed last Monday close to Cite Soleil, where there are many followers of former president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Haiti is due to hold elections in January. |