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| Haiti relief surge fails to bring security to streets |
| 2010-01-20 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Thousands of U.S. Marines joined the Haiti relief effort on Monday but lawlessness prevailed on the streets with looters preying on the helpless and raiding the flattened ruins. Doctors working with limited equipment amputated limbs to save lives while rescuers picked through debris to locate unlikely survivors more than six days after the 7.0-magnitude quake struck, reducing the Haitian capital to rubble. U.S. President Barack Obama proposed a joint U.S.-Brazilian-Canadian leadership for relief efforts as the massive international humanitarian operation was still failing to bring security and alleviate the suffering of a traumatized populace, despite the arrival of more than 2,200 U.S. Marines. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 >Haiti relief surge fails to bring security to streets and Unicorns and rainbows. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-01-20 15:26 |
| #3 level of violence we see now We don't see the violence - we're very visible and in limited areas, so the violence goes everywhere else, unseen by us. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-01-20 10:51 |
| #2 Lieutenant-General Ken Keen, the top U.S. officer on the ground, insisted: "The level of violence we see now is below pre-earthquake levels." Pentagon spin. You really have to love it. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-01-20 09:00 |
| #1 FOX NEWS > seems approxi 4,500 Haitian prison inmates are on the loose after the quake. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-01-20 01:11 |