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Haiti: 360°Use your mouse to click and drag around the video to change the view. You can also zoom in and out. Pause and explore at any time by pressing the play/pause button under the video to stop and look around. The video below was shot on Monday, January 18, at 9:52 a.m. EST in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. page 2, page 3, page 4, page 5
3/18/10 'Women aren't being protected,' she said. 'So when the lights go down is when the rapes increase, and it's happening daily in all the camps in Port-au-Prince.' With no lighting and no security, the makeshift homes that were supposed to be a haven for the homeless victims of the January 12 earthquake have become menacing places after sunset, particularly for women and children left orphaned or alone by the disaster that claimed 200,000 lives.But most of the attacks go unreported because of the shame, social stigma and fear of reprisals from attackers.'Young girls have to negotiate sexually in order to get shelter from. 3/12/10 3/7/10 As troops packed their duffels and began to fly home this weekend, Haitians and some aid workers wondered whether U.N. peacekeepers and local police are up to the task of maintaining order. More than a half-million people still live in vast encampments that have grown more unpleasant in recent days with the early onset of rainy season. Some also fear the departure of the American troops is a sign of dwindling international interest in the plight of the Haitian people following the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake. 3/2/10 2/27/10 Resurrecting razed Haiti from the dust Haiti is already fighting one battle against Mother Nature. Now it is facing another. In just a few weeks, by the end of March, or in April, the rainy season will begin. Some 700,000 people are living out in the open, in makeshift shelters. The luckier have found old and rusty corrugated iron roofs. Others huddle under bed-sheets strung between wooden poles. Shelter is, according to aid agencies, a monumental challenge. The Red Cross has started a massive measles vaccination campaign. The stench is overwhelming now, once from decaying bodies, now from excretement etc........one has to wonder how and what to do next? This will take some massive effort on the part of the Haiti government which is damaged as well, and coordination efforts, etc....it looks like another disaster waiting to happen and soon. Canada to build Haiti government base, PM Harper saysCanada will build a new headquarters for Haiti's government, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced at the start of a two-day visit to the country.Mr Harper said Canada would spend CAN$12m (£7.3m) on a temporary base after January's earthquake destroyed many government offices.The base, made of prefabricated modules and inflatable shelters, is to house key ministries for up to a year.Canada is the second biggest donor to Haiti after the United States.
2/25/10 UN
aid convoy attacked in northern Haiti Port-Au-Prince
(AFP) Feb 22, 2010 - A UN aid convoy destined
for victims of Haiti's massive earthquake was
attacked in the country's north Monday and some
supplies were taken, but no one was injured,
officials and a witness said. "The convoy
comprising full containers of food kits escorted
by the UN was attacked by several hundred people
who threw rocks at the vehicles and demanded
aid," a teacher who witnessed the incident
in the town of Limbe said Haiti's rubble will fill 1,000 trucks a day, for over 1,000 days The team included women in skirts shoveling for all it's worth, but it barely made a dent in the mountain of debris that was once a shopping center in Haiti's quake-devastated capital. While it may not seem so, judging from the absence of heavy equipment at the site, removing rubble is an urgent matter, and not only because of the many bodies still trapped under buildings in ruin throughout Port-au-Prince. Massive mounds of rubble are blocking drains and canals that are crucial in preventing floods when the heavy rains begin around May. Those made homeless by the quake who live in low-lying camps face more catastrophe if flooding occurs.
2/24/10 2/22/10 2/15/10 2/13/10 2/12/10 Two more from Lynn University's Haiti trip identified Two more bodies from the Lynn University group in Haiti during the earthquake have been identified, school officials announced Friday. The U.S. Department of State notified families of the deaths of student Stephanie Crispinelli, 19, of Katonah, N.Y, and Patrick Hartwick, 53, dean of the Ross College of Education. They were part of a group of 14 who were staying in the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, which collapsed after the Jan. 12 earthquake. Eight students escaped uninjured. The students were on a trip called "Journey of Hope," with the Coconut Creek charity Food for the Poor. Two others have also been confirmed dead: Christine Gianacaci, 22, of Hopewell, N.J., and Courtney Hayes, 23, originally from Douglas, Ga. Still missing are Britney Gengel, 19, of Rutland, Mass., and Richard Bruno, 59, assistant professor in the College of Liberal Education.
2/11/10 In
Haiti, quake is sure to be followed by torrential
rain Few things are certain in Jislene
Brisson's life these days. The Haitian mother of
four lost her husband and her house in the earthquake
that ravaged this impoverished country a month
ago. She has little money left and the emergency
food deliveries that aid groups are still struggling
to establish have yet to reach her and her children,
she said. 2/9/10 Some 300,000 people are injured. At Port-au-Prince's General Hospital, patients continue arriving with infections in wounds they can't keep clean because the street is their home. The number of amputees, estimated at 2,000 to 4,000 by Handicap International, keeps rising as people reach Port-au-Prince with untreated fractures. Violence bred of food shortages and inadequate security is also producing casualties. Dr. Santiago Arraffat of Evansville, Ind., said he treats several gunshot wounds a day at General Hospital. "People are just shooting each other," he said. "There are fights over food. People are so desperate." 2/8/10 Doctors: Haitian may have survived 4 weeks in rubble A man pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Haiti's capital Monday may have been trapped since the January 12 quake that leveled much of the city, doctors reported. The 28-year-old man, identified as Evan Muncie, was found in the wreckage of a market where he sold rice, his family told staff at a University of Miami field hospital. He suffered from extreme dehydration and malnutrition, but did not appear to have significant crushing injuries, the doctors said."He was emaciated. He hadn't had anything in quite some time. He had open wounds that were festering on both of his feet," said Dr. Mike Connelly, of the university's Project Medishare. The people who brought him to the hospital said they found the man while digging out the marketplace, Connelly said.Can we trust the Red Cross? (video) Is the Red Cross worthy of your donations to aid Haiti? CNN's Allan Chernoff reports. 2/6/`0 2/4/10 2/3/10 The
kidnapping of Haiti In his latest column
for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the "swift
and crude" appropriation of earthquake-ravaged
Haiti by the militarised Obama administration.
With George W. Bush attending to the "relief
effort" and Bill Clinton the UN's man, The
Comedians, Graham Greene's dark novel about exploted
Haiti comes to mind.
The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22 January, the United States secured “formal approval” from the United Nations to take over all air and sea ports in Haiti, and to “secure” roads. No Haitian signed the agreement, which has no basis in law. Power rules in an American naval blockade and the arrival of 13,000 marines, special forces, spooks and mercenaries, none with humanitarian relief training. The airport in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is now an American military base and relief flights have been re-routed to the Dominican Republic. All flights stopped for three hours for the arrival of Hillary Clinton. Critically injured Haitians waited unaided as 800 American residents in Haiti were fed, watered and evacuated. Six days passed before the US Air Force dropped bottled water to people suffering thirst and dehydration. 2/210 Most quake victims are still living outside in squalid tents of sheets and sticks and aid officials acknowedge they have not yet gotten food to the majority of those in need. Mobs have stolen food and looted goods from their neighbors in the camps, prompting many to band together or stay awake at night to prevent raids. 2/1/10 Americans await fate after trying to take 33 children from quake zone across border Ten U.S. Baptists arrested trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children.Prime Minister Max Bellerive told The Associated Press Sunday he was outraged by the group's "illegal trafficking of children" in a country long afflicted by the scourge and by foreign meddling.But the hard reality on the ground in this desperately poor country _ especially after the catastrophic Jan. 12 quake _ is that some parents openly attest to their willingness to part with their children if it will mean a better life. Somali Pirates Will Donate Booty to Haiti Saying the US and Europe “have no moral authority” to control the aid going to Haiti, Somali pirates say they plan to donate booty from their hijackings to the relief effort. The pirates have taken in more than $150 million in the past 2 years, by one estimate, and now aim to redistribute some while thumbing their noses at the Western powers. “They are the ones pirating mankind for many years,” a spokespirate tells Agencia Matriz del Sur. Escaped Criminals Raping, 'Running Wild' in Haiti Criminals in Haiti are preying on vulnerable earthquake survivors, even raping women, in makeshift camps set up in Port-au-Prince after the disaster. "With the blackout that's befallen the Haitian capital, bandits are taking advantage to harass and rape women and young girls under the tents," Haiti’s police, chief Mario Andresol, said yesterday. "We have more than 7,000 detainees in the streets who escaped from the national penitentiary the evening of the earthquake ... It took us five years to apprehend them. Today they are running wild." Rachelle Dolce, who is living at a large makeshift camp on the Petionville Club golf course, said that she thought a rape had occurred outside her tent the previous night. She said that she heard men making noise and a woman struggling. "I heard a fight outside and I saw panties on the ground," she said. "I started to shout a lot and they left." Figures for the number of crimes were not available but women's organizations have already detailed a number of cases and alerted the United Nations mission in Haiti, Mr Andresol said. 1/31/10 U.S. military resuming Haiti medical flights The U.S. military will resume bringing Haitian earthquake victims to the United States aboard its planes for medical treatment, ending a suspension that lasted several days, the White House said Sunday.The military had brought hundreds of critically injured Haitians to the United States aboard its planes before halting the flights on Wednesday. Since then, at least a handful of patients were flown on civilian aircraft, and other flights continued to carry U.S. citizens and other mostly non-injured passengers. Rescue Worker Blasts Haitian Relief article on Rense from a worker who just returned:
1/30/10 The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti
1/29/10 Projects
in Haiti The geology of Haiti is prospective
exploration terrain for epithermal gold-silver
as well as copper-gold porphyry deposits, and consists
of preserved remnants of a Cretaceous island arc
assemblage situated along the northern margin of
the Caribbean Plate. This geologic environment
hosts numerous gold and copper occurrences in Haiti,
as well as the Pueblo Viejo deposit in the adjacent
Dominican Republic. Pueblo Viejo has 215 million
tons of proven and probable reserves containing
20.4 million ounces of gold, 117.3 million ounces
of silver, and 423.5 million pounds of copper as
of year-end 2007 reporting (www.barrick.com). However,
even though Haiti's mineral potential is similar
to that found in the Dominican Republic, it has
remained under-explored. An estimated 200,000 family-size tents are needed as temporary shelter for the homeless, international agencies say, but only a fraction of that number are in Haiti or on their way. In Jacmel alone, more than 20,000 people are homeless. Food is also still in short supply: The U.N. World Food Program says it has delivered more than 4 million rations, equivalent to more than 13 million meals, to 500,000 people. But it projects that 2 million Haitians need food aid — now and until December. 1/28/10 1/27/10
1/26/10 Haiti's
children on their own on shattered streets The
children with no names lay mute in a corner of the General
Hospital grounds Tuesday, three among thousands
of boys and girls set adrift in the wake of Haiti's
earthquake."Hi, Joe, how are you?" the American
doctor tried, using a pet name the staff had given
a boy of about 11. There was no response."Joe," "Baby
Sebastian" and
the girl who didn't even have a nickname hadn't spoken
or cried since they were brought in over the previous
48 hours — by neighbors, passers-by, no one
knows who. "Sebastian," only a week old,
was said to have been taken from the arms of his
dead mother.They're lucky: Haitian-born Dr. Wisdom
Price and the staff were treating them for infections
and other ailments. Hundreds of thousands of hungry
and thirsty children are scattered among Port-au-Prince's
squatter camps of survivors, without protection against
disease or child predators — often with nobody
to care for them. Food handout turns chaotic in Haitian capital U.N. troops fired tear gas at desperate Haitians crowding a food handout outside the wrecked presidential palace on Tuesday as delays in getting help to earthquake survivors persist two weeks after the catastrophe.The Brazilian U.N. peacekeepers used pepper spray to control a frenzied crowd of thousands of Haitians seeking food at a makeshift camp on the grounds of the palace."They're not violent, just desperate. They just want to eat," Brazilian Army Colonel Fernando Soares said. "The problem is, there is not enough food for everyone." 1/25/10 Haiti: Stolen Tents video In Port-au-Prince, tents which had been sent as relief for homeless Haitians, were subsequently stolen, leaving some without shelter.A Deadly Quake in a Seismic Hot Zone To scientists who study seismic hazards in the Caribbean, there was no surprise in the magnitude 7 earthquake that devastated the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, two weeks ago. Except, perhaps, in where on the island of Hispaniola it occurred.“If I had had to make a bet, I would have bet that the first earthquake would have taken place in the northern Dominican Republic, not Haiti,” said Eric Calais, a geophysicist at Purdue University who has conducted research in the area for years. The fault that ruptured violently on Jan. 12 had been building up strain since the last major earthquake in Port-au-Prince, 240 years ago. Dr. Calais and others had warned in 2008 that a quake could occur along that segment, part of what is called the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone, although they could not predict when. But about 100 miles to the northeast is a long segment
of a similar fault, the Septentrional, that has not
had a quake in 800 years. Researchers have estimated
that a rupture along that segment — and again,
they have no idea when one might occur — could
result in a magnitude 7.5 quake that could cause
severe damage in the Dominican Republic’s second-largest
city, Santiago, and the surrounding Cibao Valley,
together home to several million people. SOS, Katrina And Haiti There are some valuable lessons, moral, social, political and otherwise, in what happened in August 2005 with Hurricane Katrina / New Orleans and what is transpiring right now in Port Au Prince, Haiti. In short, it was then and now failed leadership, failed aid delivery on display in both disasters. 1/24/10 REPORT FROM HAITI (1/22/10) live video Haiti ends quake rescue operations The Haitian government has declared an end to the search and rescue phase of the country's post-earthquake operations after deciding there is little hope of finding more people alive, the United Nations said today. The decision came the day after two people, an 84-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man, were pulled alive from the rubble in the capital, Port-au-Prince. The UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs said 132 people had been rescued from the rubble by international teams. Spokeswoman Elizebeth Byrs said the move would not prevent rescue teams who were still searching through the rubble from carrying out any work they felt necessary. "It doesn't mean the government will order them to stop. In case there is the slightest sign of life, they will act." But she added: "Except for miracles, hope is unfortunately fading." Haiti earthquake claims lives of country's leading feminists Women's rights activists have paid tribute to three prominent Haitian feminists killed in this month's devastating earthquake. Myriam Merlet, Magalie Marcelin and Anne Marie Coriolan were among the tens of thousands who died when the quake struck. They were described as enterprising activists who had taken on a legal and social system which, in Marcelin's words, treats women's bodies as commodities. The three were part of the first wave of civil society organisations to emerge when the dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier stepped down in 1986. Working both inside and outside the government, they and the organisations they helped lead were instrumental in establishing, in 2005, the country's first law criminalising rape. Haiti gov't says 150K bodies recovered in capital The confirmed death toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake has topped 150,000 in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area alone, the communications minister said Sunday, with many more thousands dead around the country or still buried under the rubble.Communications minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue told The Associated Press that the figure is based on a body count in the capital and outlying areas by CNE, a state company that has been collecting corpses and burying them in a mass grave north of Port-au-Prince. It does not include other affected cities such as Jacmel, where thousands are believed dead, nor does it account for bodies burned by relatives. "Nobody knows how many bodies are buried in the rubble — 200,000, 300,000?" Lassegue said Sunday. "Who knows the overall death toll?" Haiti homeless reach 2 million Long backlogs of patients injured in the Haiti earthquake are building at medical clinics as aid workers warn of more deaths from untreated injuries and disease in overcrowded makeshift camps. The warnings come as the US prepares to send 4,000 more troops to Haiti to help the relief effort. The new contingent of soldiers and marines diverted from deployments in the Gulf and Africa will take the US presence to about 16,000 troops. Earth-moving equipment is being used in an effort to speed up the burial of 200,000 people estimated to have died in last week's disaster while estimates of those made homeless have leapt by a third to 2 million. Governments around the world have so far pledged a total of nearly $1bn (£610m) aid, the Associated Press estimated. 1/21/10 A Haiti Disaster Relief Scenario Was Envisaged by the US Military One Day Before the Earthquake A Haiti disaster relief scenario had been envisaged at the headquarters of US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) in Miami one day prior to the earthquake.The holding of pre-disaster simulations pertained to the impacts of a hurricane in Haiti. They were held on January 11. (Bob Brewin, Defense launches online system to coordinate Haiti relief efforts (1/15/10) -- GovExec.com, complete text of article is contained in Annex)The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), which is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense (DoD), was involved in organizing these scenarios on behalf of US Southern Command.(SOUTHCOM).Defined as a "Combat Support Agency", DISA has a mandate to provide IT and telecommunications, systems, logistics services in support of the US military. (See DISA website: Defense Information Systems Agency).On the day prior to the earthquake, "on Monday [January 11, 2010], Jean Demay, DISA's technical manager for the agency's Transnational Information Sharing Cooperation project, happened to be at the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command in Miami preparing for a test of the system in a scenario that involved providing relief to Haiti in the wake of a hurricane." (Bob Brewin, op cit, emphasis added) Relatives of Americans missing in Haiti angry Family and friends of missing Americans have searched the ruins themselves. They've hired private rescue teams. They've pleaded with the U.S. government to do more to help bring home loved ones who disappeared amid the rubble of earthquake-ravaged Haiti.More than a week after the quake rocked the country, the grief of not knowing has become unbearable. Frustration and hopelessness have boiled into anger against the U.S. government. Parents hustle to finish Haitian adoptions U.S. OFFICIALS TAKE STEPS TO SPEED UP PROCESS SO KIDS CAN ENTER COUNTRY. Michael T. Bond, deputy assistant secretary for Overseas Citizens Services, said in a Jan. 19 interview on the U.S. State Department Web site that there are several hundred Americans adopting Haitian orphans. As of Jan. 19, 29 orphans had received immigrant visas and about 100 more had received humanitarian parole.
1/20/10 Haiti's mass graves swell; doctors fear more death Workers are carving out mass graves on a hillside north of Haiti's capital, using earth-movers to bury 10,000 earthquake victims in a single day while relief workers warn the death toll could increase.Medical clinics have 12-day patient backlogs, untreated injuries are festering and makeshift camps housing thousands of survivors could foster disease, experts said. Cuba in Haiti getting the job done While the US "Security State" makes cautious steps towards helping in Haiti, a team of doctors led by Cuba is providing emergency care to 600 to 700 Haitians a day including dozens of surgeries. You can't send any money to Cuba to support this effort though. If you did, you could be charged with supporting the "Axis of Evil." Aftershock rattles Haiti, but aid flow ramps up A new earthquake shook the devastated Haitian capital Port-au-Prince early on Wednesday, rattling already wrecked buildings and triggering panic among survivors of last week's devastating quake.The largest aftershock since the killer quake struck on January 12 rattled masses camping on the streets but appeared not to cause any new destruction or slow international relief bolstered by increasing numbers of U.S. troops.The 6.1 magnitude aftershock at daybreak sent shrieking Haitians running from buildings and walls fearing a repeat of the magnitude 7 earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people eight days ago 1/19/10 In response to accusations that aid has been slow to arrive,
Clinton defended the relief effort. "The infrastructure
broke down, and that's what we're building up," he told AFP. "It's
astonishing what the Haitians have been able to accomplish,
performing surgeries at night, with lights, with no anesthesia,
using vodka to sterilize equipment," he said. 1/18/10 Aid to Haiti Speeds Up, but Delays Plague Effort One week after an earthquake pulverized Haiti, emergency supplies of water, food and medicine are beginning to reach large numbers of the country's desperate survivors. The number of U.S. troops in Haiti is expected to reach about 10,000 by midweek to help transport emergency supplies, provide security and clear debris. In the interim, however, residents have perished as distraught relatives awaited rescue teams and equipment that didn't arrive in time. Homeless people still camp on the streets, wondering why aid is taking so long. "They say there's help, but it doesn't arrive," said Henock Volmidor, an unemployed hotel worker, at a makeshift refugee camp on Monday. It wasn't supposed to be this way. After the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 that killed at least 230,000 people in 13 countries, the United Nations and emergency-relief organizations vowed to avert the disorganization that plagued that effort. More than 300 charities showed up in Aceh, Indonesia, with little coordination between them. Haitian
orphans could be airlifted to Miami for resettlement
Thousands of orphans and other Haitian children displaced
by the earthquake may be airlifted to Florida in a humanitarian
project that has roots in a similar mass exodus from Cuba
half a century ago. Operation Pierre Pan would be a near
repeat of Operación Pedro Pan, which saw 14,048 unaccompanied
Cuban children start new lives in the US in the early 1960s.
Just like that two-year programme, which was designed to
remove children from the control of Fidel Castro's government,
the new arrivals would live in temporary shelters in south
Florida until foster homes are found, or they are reunited
with family members.
US doctors beg their government to admit critically injured children from Haiti American doctors are begging their Government to accept critically injured Haitian children after one baby girl was airlifted to hospital in Florida. Meanwhile, in an exercise dubbed Operation Pierre Pan, the Catholic Church in Miami is drawing up plans to rescue thousands of Haitian orphans, mirroring the Operation Pedro Pan airlift of 1960 in which 14,000 Cuban children were taken to the city. US immigration officials had been refusing to allow children into the country until next weekend. However, as Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State, arrived to assure Haitians that America stood ready to help “in any way we can”, doctors managed to persuade the US authorities to allow in Jean, a four-month-old Haitian girl for treatment. The orphaned child has cut through immigration rules used to bar entry to the US for Haitians even in extreme circumstances. Witness To A Nightmare By Jesse Hagopian & Eric Ruder Personal account in Haiti Wisconsin
college student returns from Haiti after missing for days (video)
A college student from Hartland who has been missing for days
after the earthquake, is back in Wisconsin. Missy Elliot was
on a humanitarian mission with fellow students from Lynn University
when the earthquake hit.
UPDATE: January 18, 2010 The Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) plane filled with supplies needed to establish an inflatable tent field hospital landed at approximately 11 am local time, Sunday, January 17, in Port-au-Prince. However, another MSF cargo plane carrying vital medical supplies to replenish stocks for Choscal hospital, where an MSF team is working on a backlog of patients needing surgery, was not allowed to land in Port-au-Prince on Sunday, January 17, and was forced to re-route to the Dominican Republic, where it landed. Choscal hospital will run out of medical supplies in less than 24 hours and its cold chain system for preserving medicines and vaccines at the proper temperatures could be compromised if this cargo plane is not able to fly into Port-au-Prince immediately. More than 500 patients in need of surgery have been transferred from Martissant to Choscal hospital in Cite Soleil. MSF teams are focusing on lifesaving surgery (open wounds, fractures, burns, amputations, and emergency obstetrics). They’ve been working around the clock and have done more than 90 surgeries since the operating theater became functional. Priority is given to lifesaving interventions, such as amputations carried out on patients with gangrene triggered by infected wounds. TO DONATE TO DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS...A FAST AND SURE WAY TO HELP......CLICK HERE!
2 World Relief Workers Missing in Port-au-Prince Two workers for World Relief remained unaccounted for Friday, three days after the earthquake destroyed the agency's Port-au-Prince headquarters.North Carolina Affiliate Director Mark Kadel said World Relief employs 40 in the office, which was destroyed when the second story collapsed onto the first story and the roof fell in entirely during Tuesday's earthquake.World Relief Vice President Stephan Bauman, who is in Haiti, estimates nearly half the buildings in Port-au-Prince have collapsed. Will Haiti become Islamized? The well-funded jihad is relentless. And why not? The idiots from the West have given trillion$ in oil money to members of one of the two most aggressive proselytizing cults on the planet.Now the Senegalese government has offered to take in Haitian immigrants, which sounds like a very nice offer, except when you consider the fact that Senegal is 96% Islamic. What that fact would likely mean, of course, is that anyone entering Senegal would be heavily proselytized if not forced outright to convert. Will these converts return to Haiti, Islamized and with Muslim children in tow, etc.? Moreover, what steps are being implemented in Haiti to ensure that it comes into line with the global Islamic sharia banking/financing plan? As we know, along with sharia banking comes the rest of sharia law, as well as Islam itself. More troops, aid go to Haiti, but hunger persists Troops, doctors and aid workers flowed into Haiti on Monday even while victims of the quake that killed an estimated 200,000 people still struggled to find a cup of water or a handful of food. European nations pledged more than a half-billion dollars in emergency and long-term aid, on top of at least $100 million promised earlier by the U.S.But help was still not reaching many victims of Tuesday's quake — choked back by transportation bottlenecks, bureaucratic confusion, fear of attacks on aid convoys, the collapse of local authority and the sheer scale of the need. Ortega
warns of US deployment in Haiti Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega says that the United States has taken advantage
of the massive quake in Haiti and deployed troops in the
country.
"What is happening in Haiti seriously concerns me as
US troops have already taken control of the airport," Ortega
said on Saturday.
The Pentagon says it has deployed more than 10,000 soldiers
in Haiti to help victims of Tuesday's earthquake.
1/17/10
When is Looting "not looting' but instead 'survival'? Quake victims seek comfort in prayers Haitians bereft of homes and loved ones held Sunday prayers in the streets of their earthquake-ravaged capital while rescue workers continued digging in the ruins for something like a miracle. In front of the broken churches, which in some cases still harbored bodies, worshipers looked to powers beyond their grasp for help. "Don't pray for the dead," boomed Joel St. Amour, preaching outside the Evangelical Baptist Church. "Pray for the living." Before him, 30 worshipers gathered on folding metal chairs under bougainvillea and mimosa trees and sang "How Great Thou Art." The air carried the sickly scent of death.On a day of prayer, earthly concerns such as food, water and security remained at the forefront. Pictures of Earthquake in Haiti (warning....graphic) 1/16/10 Satellite image of Port-au-Prince earthquake damage Explore this GeoEye satellite image, taken Wednesday at 10:27 a.m., a day after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti's captial and surrounding area. Obama Grants Haitians Illegally in U.S. 'Protected Status' for 18 Months The Obama administration said today that tens of thousands of illegal Haitian immigrants can remain temporarily in the U.S. while their country rebuilds after Tuesday's devastating earthquake. The announcement to grant "temporary protective status," or TPS, to Haitian nationals allows immigrants already in the U.S. to live and work freely here until conditions in Haiti improve. After 18 months the status could be revoked. For emergency medical teams, time and coordination are of the essence in Haiti The medical relief teams racing to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti are up against a grim biological fact: People trapped and injured are most likely to survive if rescued within 48 hours, and very few people are found alive more than six days after a disaster. The rare people who are rescued much later often need treatment -- kidney dialysis, intensive-care nursing and cardiovascular support -- that is singularly hard to deliver in disaster zones. Yet, the landscape of many recent natural disasters has featured not only wreckage and bodies, but also the high-tech encampments of surgical teams that arrived too late to be of much use while many more ordinary medical needs continued to go unaddressed. Exiled Haiti president 'ready to return' Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) -- Exiled Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has announced that he is ready to return home to help rebuild his earthquake-shattered country.The former president has been living in South Africa since fleeing Haiti during a violent uprising in 2004. Aristide told reporters gathered at a hotel near Johannesburg's international airport that he is ready to return from exile as soon as today."To symbolize our readiness we have decided to meet not just anywhere but here in the shadow of the Oliver Tambo International airport," he said."As far as we are concerned we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country moving from misery to poverty with dignity." UN
thugs in Haiti The other Bush regime change .. In
2004, democratically elected Jean-Betrand Aristide was kidnapped
by US and Canadian forces in the middle of a coup attempt
and taken to "safety" in Africa. The U.S. Military in Haiti: A Compassionate Invasion Haiti aid flow grows; feuds over reaching victims PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Hungry, haggard survivors clamored — and sometimes fought — for food and water Saturday as donors squabbled over how to get aid into Haiti and rescuers waged an increasingly improbable battle to free the dying before they become the dead. Haiti's government alone has already recovered 20,000 bodies — not counting those recovered by independent agencies or relatives themselves, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told The Associated Press. He said a final toll of 100,000 dead would "seem to be the minimum." There were growing signs that foreign aid and rescue workers were getting to the people most in need — even those buried deep beneath collapsed buildings — while others struggled to cope with the countless bodies still left on the streets. 1/14/10 For
many in Haiti quake, help is still a no-show
Haitians are angry, but not surprised, that they are left
to dig out the trapped and haul off the dead on their own.
Some people flee Port-au-Prince with whatever they could salvage,
Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - By Thursday, the bodies
had begun piling up on the streets. Where the day before there
were one or two, now there were several, sometimes dozens in
a single spot. It became common to see people carrying bodies
through the streets, pickup trucks loaded with bodies on their
beds, people pushing bodies in wheelbarrows.
In Haiti, tragedy, a way of life, is redefined EDITOR'S NOTE — Jonathan M. Katz is The Associated Press' correspondent in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He filed this first-person account of the moments after Tuesday's earthquake, which has redefined tragedy for a nation that knows it all too well. Emergency aid begins to arrive in a chaotic Haiti Rescue teams from eight countries arrive. But there is little sign of them in Port-au-Prince, where residents scavenge for food, carry the dead and hunt for survivors. Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - Emergency aid flowed from around the world toward Haiti on Thursday, only to confront a reality that grew more desperate by the hour: Crippled ports and communications left stunned earthquake survivors on their own to scavenge for food and water, carry away legions of dead and dig frantically for voices calling out from under the rubble.President Obama promised $100 million and the full resources of the U.S. government for what he said would be one of the largest relief efforts in recent history. U.S. officials said 30 countries had either sent aid or promised to do so. Rescue teams from eight countries already had arrived.
Haiti begins to see emergency aid from abroad Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, and Mexico City --
Promised emergency aid from abroad began flowing into Haiti's
earthquake-ravaged capital today as residents awoke for a second
morning to a battered landscape of toppled buildings and legions
of dead and injured, with many people still unaccounted for
in the debris. Bodies piled on streets after powerful Haiti quake Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after a powerful earthquake flattened the president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. Officials feared thousands — perhaps more than 100,000 — may have perished but there was no firm count. Death was everywhere in Port-au-Prince. Bodies of tiny children were piled next to schools. Corpses of women lay on the street with stunned expressions frozen on their faces as flies began to gather. Bodies of men were covered with plastic tarps or cotton sheets. UPDATE ON HAITI QUAKE: Major quake hits Haiti; many casualties expected
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media crews pull baby from rubble in Haiti
