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Haiti grants United States Air Force "senior airfield authority" and Permission in Troop Increases.
Submitted by gooner on Sat, 01/16/2010 - 3:35am
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/01/2010115171416848545.html
"Tuesday would be declared as one of the 10 deadliest earthquakes ever recorded.
In another develpoment on Friday, the United States was given "senior airfield authority" of Haiti's main airport under an agreement between the State Department and the Haitian government.
Lieutenant General Philip Breedlove, the Air Force deputy chief of staff for operations, plans and requirements, said on Friday that the agreement is in effect for the next 72 hours.
The agreement means the US will "schedule and control" flights in and out of the airport and decide what planes can land and in what order.
The United States also plans to send 10,000 US troops to the earthquake-ravaged country to help distribute aid and prevent potential rioting among desperate earthquake survivors, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff has said."
The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti (via HAARP) now is providing a sutable excuse for western intervention in the region without raising too many eyebrows.
http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HL/9_4_8/9_4_8.html
"The infamous U.S. government contractor DynCorp, a quasi-official arm of the Pentagon and the CIA, is responsible for expanding the base named "Konbit pou lape" (Get Together for Peace), which houses the soldiers of the U.N. Miss ion to Stabilize Haiti (MINUSTAH) in the most bullet-ridden battleground of the foreign military occupation that began after U.S. Special Forces kidnapped President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his wife from their home and flew them into exile on Feb. 29, 2004."
The international reaction to Haiti is particularly interesting as well considering the amount of attention being paid. There have been countless natural disasters that never even recieved a nod from the media. Even Hurricane Katrina failed to recieve half the amount of aid being sent to Haiti. Yet the amount of actual aid smells more like metal than food.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/hait-j15.shtml
"So dominant is the US military role that White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was compelled to deny Thursday that Washington was exercising de facto governing power in Haiti. The Haitian government, he declared, is still in charge in Port-au-Prince, although local press reports suggest that not a single government agency or building is currently functioning.
If one adds up the naval, air and ground forces deployed or dispatched by the Pentagon, the total is well over 12,000. At the same time, the US government has sent only 300 doctors—fewer than the number of Cuban healthcare workers already on the ground in Haiti (344), and less than half the number of volunteers working there from Doctors Without Borders (800)."
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To me it would seem that 72
Submitted by mancer on Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:17am.To me it would seem that 72 hours is not a lot considering the scale of the disaster. Unlike a lot of other earthquakes disaster zones, Haiti has no surrounding continent to use as a crutch. They are on an island and the island is demolished.
I did come across this on our good friend CNN ...
Experts warned of Haiti earthquake risk
(CNN) -- Scientists have warned for years that the island of Hispaniola, which Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic, was at risk for a major earthquake.
Five scientists presented a paper during the 18th Caribbean Geological Conference in March 2008 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, stating that a fault zone on the south side of the island posed "a major seismic hazard."
Tuesday's potentially disastrous 7.0 earthquake occurred in Haiti along the same fault line, known as the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone.
"We were concerned about it," said one of the paper's authors, Paul Mann, a senior research scientist at the University of Texas' Institute for Geophysics.
"The problem with these kinds of strikes is that they can remain quiescent -- dormant -- for hundreds of years," he said Tuesday evening. "So it's hard to predict when they'll occur."
The findings by Mann and his colleagues followed a 2004 study in the Journal of Geophysical Research in which two geologists found a heightened earthquake risk along the Septentrional fault zone, which runs through the Cibao valley in the northern Dominican Republic.
1692 Port Royal earthquake
From the Caribbean Disaster Mitigation Project
I realise Jamaica is not
Submitted by mancer on Sun, 01/17/2010 - 9:27am.I realise Jamaica is not Haiti, but, how close are those two.
Wiki:
72 hours is plenty of time to
Submitted by gooner on Mon, 01/18/2010 - 2:54am.72 hours is plenty of time to keep what you want to keep and turn back what you want to turn back air wise. In any case the facts still remain about the US reaction to the earthquake that being more troop deployment than actual aid.