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2006-08-22 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Steve White 2006-08-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Because of his defiance, Duclona now faces the fierce onslaught of the vaunted Haitian military."

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-22 09:29|| 2006-08-22 09:29|| Front Page Top

#2 In this town there's only room for one Godfather.

Posted by ed 2006-08-22 09:32|| 2006-08-22 09:32|| Front Page Top

#3 And I'm it.

Posted by Smedley Butler 2006-08-22 09:48|| 2006-08-22 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Duclona told reporters in the seaside slum, sitting on a red motor scooter.

...Doesn't quite have the same mystique as a black Packard limo, does it?...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-08-22 11:02|| 2006-08-22 11:02|| Front Page Top

#5 it's a cycle of violence, Mike

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-08-22 11:09|| 2006-08-22 11:09|| Front Page Top

#6 The funniest part is that a gang whose leader jets around on a red motor scooter would probably whip the U.N. force.

Posted by DoDo 2006-08-22 11:51|| 2006-08-22 11:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Bosnia, Haiti, Darfur...the UN'successful models of how to do things. Need further reason that its time to close the door on this relic of mid 20th Century fantasy.

Posted by Angaviger Craiter1890 2006-08-22 12:57|| 2006-08-22 12:57|| Front Page Top

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