[net-gold] COUNTRIES: HAITI : DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES: US, Globe Rush Rescue, Relief Workers to Haiti
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- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:59:03 -0500 (EST)
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COUNTRIES: HAITI :
DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES:
US, Globe Rush Rescue, Relief Workers to Haiti
US, Globe Rush Rescue, Relief Workers to Haiti
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 13, 2010
Filed at 11:36 p.m. ET
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/13/us/
politics/AP-Haiti-Earthquake-Aid.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yc3az73>
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama dispatched military troops and
an air and sea flotilla to speed earthquake relief to Haiti on Wednesday,
and governments from China to Venezuela rushed to help with aid and rescue
workers, as well. Obama said the world's help was critical to deal with a
''cruel and incomprehensible'' tragedy.
The massive effort to alleviate the spiraling toll of death and
destruction kicked in as the devastation from Tuesday's magnitude-7.0
quake revealed itself. Haitian officials predicted a death total of
staggering proportions.
U.S. officials were checking reports of at least three deaths of Americans
in Haiti. State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley said few of the
estimated 45,000 Americans living in the country had been able to
communicate with U.S. officials and verify they were safe and sound.
The United States set in motion a sweeping military response that included
ships, helicopters, transport planes and possibly a 2,000-member Marine
unit.
One of the U.S. Navy's large amphibious ships, the USS Bataan, was ordered
to Haiti with a Marine expeditionary unit aboard. The ship is one of more
than a half dozen, including frigates, a destroyer and a guided missile
cruiser, being sent to the Caribbean nation.
An Army brigade, which would include several thousand soldiers, from the
82nd Airborne Division based at Fort Bragg, N.C., was standing by for
possible deployment, and the Pentagon is ''seriously looking at'' sending
thousands of Marines to assist with disaster relief efforts and security
in Haiti, he said.
<snip>
The United Nations has released $10 million from its emergency funds, even
as U.N. workers and peacekeeping troops on the island nation at the time
of the quake struggled with their own losses. The U.N. headquarters
building collapsed, and the reported death toll there was mounting.
''We'll be using whatever roads are passable to get aid to Port-au-Prince,
and if possible we'll bring helicopters in,'' said Emilia Casella, a
spokeswoman for the U.N. food agency in Geneva. Its 200 staff in Haiti
were trying to deliver high-energy biscuits and other supplies, despite
looting and the threat of violence in a nation long plagued by
lawlessness.
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