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Haiti: Victim of a Long Term US Military Mission?

Haiti: Victim of a Long Term US Military Mission?
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Nour Rida, 22-1-2010

Just three days after a magnitude 7 earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, US military forces were present in the impoverished Caribbean nation, and Washington says it has a long-term plan to stay in the country.

"We are there for the long term, this is not something that will be resolved quickly and easily," US Ambassador to the UN Alejandro Wolff said on Thursday. 


Nearly 20,000 US troops are due to operate, both on land and offshore, by Sunday, as stated head of US Southern Command General Douglas Fraser on Thursday. 


Around 11,000 US military personnel are currently controlling the operations both on the ground and offshore aboard US Navy and Coast Guard vessels, and another 4,000 US troops are expected to arrive by the weekend.


Moreover, US troops are now operating at four airports to ferry aid and relief supplies to quake-devastated Haiti, a senior US military commander said Thursday. 


The US received avalanches of criticism for its military presence, which has taken over command of the distribution of humanitarian aid, has raised the ire of some organizations as well as countries including France, Nicaragua and Venezuela. 


Leading international aid organization, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders), slammed the US for putting the delivery of soldiers before medical supplies.

Bolivia and Venezuela have criticized US heavy presence and France earlier expressed annoyance after aid planes were delayed from landing.

French Secretary of State for Cooperation Alain Joyandet called on the United Nations to clarify the US role in Haiti, saying the priority was "helping Haiti, not occupying Haiti."

Washington, in the past, has been accused of interfering in Haitian internal affairs on many occasions.
US presence in Haiti is not only bound to the existence of thousands of soldiers, but also contractors who try to cash in on the quake-hit country's disaster.

Sources revealed there is a recent influx of for-profit security contractors in Haiti, which means more unaccountable people with guns in a lawless environment as the country is devastated, as said Jeremy Scahill, Nation correspondent. In a televised interview, Schahill said this is the last thing Haitians need.


As told before, private contractors will inevitably play a huge role in the recovery and reconstruction effort, yet given lessons learned in Iraq and Afghanistan prove such firms can be reasons behind "a catastrophic disaster" rather than a "disaster-response mission".
On the same note, a controversial CIA contractor has found new work in Haiti, flying drones on disaster recovery duty. 


Evergreen International Aviation, the Oregon-based firm is the first private company that has started flying UAVs over Haiti-and is planning on sharing the images the unmanned aircraft takes with the press, as sources reported. 


Now, company vice president Sam White tells Aviation Week that the firm is flying at least one ScanEagle surveillance drone over Haiti. "The company has a fleet of 747s and a fleet of large and small choppers has begun ferrying in supplies to Port au Prince,"
Yet the magazine's Paul McLeary noted that White wouldn't say who the company is moving cargo for, saying only that "we're working with different agencies."


As for the reason behind the destructive earthquake, a report prepared by the Russian Northern Fleet for Prime Minister Putin is stating today that the catastrophic earthquake that has devastated the Island of Haiti was the ‘clear result' of a United States Navy test of one of its ‘earthquake weapons' planned to be used by the Americans upon the Persian Nation of Iran but had gone ‘horribly wrong'.

Since the late 1970's, the United States has ‘greatly advanced' the state of its earthquake weapons and, according to these reports, now employees devices employing a Tesla Electromagnetic Pulse, Plasma and Sonic technology, along with ‘shockwave bombs' they have previously been accused by Russia of employing in their war against the Afghan peoples when one of these ‘devices' was exploded in Afghanistan in March, 2002 triggering a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake.

And so, the Haitians are left in a dire condition, with more corpses and possible survivors remaining under the debris, acres of graveyards holding the bodies of hundreds of thousands that were killed, and over a million homeless with no living basics or facilities.
Meanwhile, a few questions remain on the reason behind a US occupation as thousands of troops have either deployed in the country or arrive in a few days, more questions hang about the presence of drone planes and contractors-both playing a major role in previous US-led wars, and suspicions of such a destructive seismic "artificial" activity as initial report revealed.


Comments

person JB

It\'s easy to criticize. . .

Should the US remain idle and watch people rot, starve, and die in the rubble and in the trenches? No. Any suspicious moves willl be criticized, but to what extent; speculation only leads to trouble. The US Empire is on decline and China is now cutting back or simply off money towards the US. A long term project in the Haitian nation seems like a perfect effort to reclaim US stability in the world. Despite the chances, it is not going to happen. Hopefully the Haitians have learned from their history. Hopefully, the World will not allow it, but will the Haitian nation?