Video: US Secretary Clinton Haiti Update
Posted: January 20, 2010 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, Honour & Tribute, NZPacific, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: aid and relief, American embassy Haiti, citizens, Clinton, crisis, Diplomacy, disaster, earthquake, emergency, evacuation, government, Haiti, Haiti President, hillary rodham, military, Port-au-Prince, president, Preval, Rajiv Shah, Rene Preval, secretary of state, update, us embassy, usa, USAID Leave a commentDuring her stop in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on the emergency crisis situation in Haiti. On her right stands Haiti President Rene Garcia Preval. Directly standing behind Clinton, to her right, is USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah.
US Secretary of State Debunks Aid ‘Not Reaching Haitians’
Posted: January 20, 2010 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, NZPacific, Politics, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: (Aaron, (Carl, (CVW), (HSC), 03000000, 03002000, 12, 13015001, 16, 17, 2010, 70, 9, african american african-american black, air, aircraft, assigned, campus, carrier, caused, cdm, citizens, combat, conducting, crewmen, damage, dis, disaster, earthquake, effort, Haiti, Haitian, helicopter, hispanic, HTI, humanitarian, january, krt2010, krtcampus, krtcaribbean caribbean, krtdisaster disaster, krtdiversity diversity, krtedonly, krtquake earthquake quake, krtworld world, magnitude, mct, navy, near, news, operations, Photo/MCT), PortauPrince, receive, recovery, relief, saturday, sea, severe, Shelley/US, Squadron, the, USS, Vinson, water, wing, woman women, youth Leave a comment[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=us+navy+haiti&iid=7560760″ src=”5/e/9/a/Haiti_Earthquake_Recovery_dd6a.JPG?adImageId=9301515&imageId=7560760″ width=”500″ height=”359″ /]
Haitian citizens receive water from air crewmen from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 9, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, January 16, 2010. The Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17 are conducting humanitarian and disaster relief operations after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake caused severe damage near Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010. (Aaron Shelley/US Navy News Photo/MCT).
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
January 16, 2010
Transcript Interview With NBC Andrea Mitchell
*Note: transcript provided by NBC News.*
QUESTION: Madam Secretary, from what you’ve seen so far, what have you learned since you’ve been on the ground that will help you make decisions that will help the people of Haiti?
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, Andrea, the most important thing is the very long meeting that I had with President Preval and his Prime Minister and the leadership that are functioning. We went into great detail about what Haiti needed, what the government needed and how we could better coordinate. I was able to convey both our willingness to assist, but our need to have that coordination so we are going to be working very hard. You know, I like – (airplane noise) That’s a good sound. That means something good is happening. Somebody’s coming or going. I was also able to have a briefing with our military on the ground, our embassy, our ambassador, who’s the chief of mission coordinating all of this. And we took a lot of notes – we have a lot of ideas that we’re going to follow up on and I think we’re making progress but we have a long way to go.
QUESTION: There is the perception – there’ve been complaints or reports of bottlenecks – that there’s a lot of aid coming in but it’s very hard to get it out to the people who need it. Read the rest of this entry »
Online Person Finder Tool for Those Missing in Haiti
Posted: January 16, 2010 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, NZPacific, Politics, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: destruction haiti, disaster, earthquake, emergency, Haiti, relief, US response to Haiti 1 CommentPress Releases: Secretary Clinton Announces Launch of State.Gov Person Finder Tool for Those Missing in Haiti
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:04:11 -0600
Secretary Clinton Announces Launch of State.Gov Person Finder Tool for Those Missing in Haiti
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
January 15, 2010
US Govt Briefing On the Situation in Haiti
Posted: January 15, 2010 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, NZPacific, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: destruction haiti, disaster, earthquake, emergency, Haiti, relief, US response to Haiti Leave a commentPress Releases: Briefing On the Situation in Haiti
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:15:22 -0600 (US Washington time)
Briefing On the Situation in Haiti
Cheryl Mills
Counselor
USAID Administrator Raj Shah, Department Spokesman Gordon Duguid
Washington, DC
January 14, 2010
Latest Photos: Earthquake Devastates Haitians; Waiting for Aid (be warned, some pictures may disturb)
Posted: January 15, 2010 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, Opinion & Commentary, Politics, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: (Carl, (Patrick, 03000000, 03002000, 12, 13, 13015001, 14, 2010, 43, a, adult, aerial, alive, american, Aminise, Amputated, areas, assessment, assistance, attention, bed, Bestof, boarding, body, boy, capital, capital cities, Casualty, center, charity and relief work, city, coffin, Come, Confirmed, Creole, cross, damage, daughter, dead, debris, department, devastates, devastation, dis, disaster, disbelief, doctors, down, Downtown District, earthquake, ecstatic, Eliazar, Emanuela, Emergencies And Disasters, facility, Farrell/Miami, fear, field, fire, general, Geographical Locations, Germain, gets, girl, Gladys, greeted, group, Haiti, Haiti's, Haitian, HAITIEARTHQUAKE, Headshot, help, Herald/MCT), hold, home, hope, horizontal, hospital, hotel, hours, HTI, human body, human toe, hundreds, injured, injuries, inside, january, jeune, joseph, Juste/Miami, krt2010, krtcaribbean caribbean, krtdisaster disaster, krtedonly, krtquake earthquake quake, krtworld world, lap, large, left, leg, lie, Loiuis, looks, magnitude7, makeshift, male, man, mct, medical, men, missing, mission, Mother's, mourn, Nearly, news, NGO, occupation, officials, outside, People, perished, Physical Injury, placing, Port-au-Prince, PortauPrince, pulled, quake, React, recovering, red, remains, reports, Resourceful, rest, Roselyn, rubble, ruined, school, seek, seen, shelter, street, surrounding, Tag, Thousands, thursday, topics, Topix, town, transport, tries, turns, underneath, UPI/American, victim, villa, waiting, water, woman, women, young 2 Comments[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=haiti+earthquake&iid=7542868″ src=”f/e/6/a/Major_Earthquake_Devastates_b159.jpg?adImageId=9000764&imageId=7542868″ width=”500″ height=”343″ /]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: A women tends to an injured relative at a small clinic after she was caught in the massive earthquake on January 14, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake killing possibly thousands. Numerous buildings were reduced to rubble by the 7.3-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
[tweetmeme]In a country that has been totally dependent on the United Nations and the Red Cross even before the earthquake, the biggest blow to a swift humanitarian response in Haiti is the United Nations Mission has suffered a major blow with more than 150 staff still missing, presumed buried under rubble.The UN Haiti mission has about 1700 staff including 1200 Haitians. Among those reportedly still missing in Haiti is the head of the UN mission.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – JANUARY 13: A man holds a severely injured woman, while waiting for assistance in the town of Canape Vert January 13, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake that may have killed thousands. (Photo by Frederic Dupoux/Getty Images).
US President Barack Obama ordered a swift and aggressive US rescue effort, while the European Union activated its crisis systems and the Red Cross and United Nations unlocked emergency funds and supplies for the destitute nation. Much of Port-au-Prince was reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12 but the airport was operational, opening the way for international relief aid to be ferried in by air as well as by sea.
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BBC World Service’s Andy Gallagher reported this morning that there isn’t really any sense or signs of any kind of organised international aid relief, or search and rescue, in earthquake-stricken Haiti.
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Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince is seen from an aerial assessment mission by the American Red Cross.
BBC’s Gallagher, as he walked the rubble-strewn streets of Haiti:
…I barely saw anyone of any official capacity, just perhaps one Haitian police car and one Haitian ambulance.
…Still no signs of international aid..People keep asking me and stopping me and asking me, where is the help, where is the supplies, where are the promises that have been made? People just feel desperate, but more than anything else, for now completely alone.
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People walk in the streets after the earthquake.
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An injured women is seen at a makeshift field hospital in Port-au-Prince
Queried about reported problems getting aid into the international airport at Haiti, Gallagher said:
…I can hear what sounds like a C130 military plane either coming in or going out….definite activity there. The airport runway we were lead to believe was badly damaged in the earthquake but when I landed last night, it seems that the runway is fine, there is power at the airport, the runway lights do work at night, there were aircraft taking off and landing last night.
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People wait in line for water from the fire department after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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A casualty is identified with a makeshift toe tag on January 13, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Photo by Frederic Dupoux/Getty Images).
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A car remains parked outside the ruins of a cafe January 13, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Outside the Villa Creole Hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, January 14, 2010, the injured from surrounding areas have come for shelter and medical attention by a medical NGO, Hope for Haiti. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald/MCT)
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Haitian men transport a male earthquake victim after recovering him underneath debris in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald/MCT)
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Haitian men transport a male earthquake victim after recovering him underneath debris in Port-au-Prince. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald/MCT)
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Roselyn Joseph, left, gets help in placing the body of her daughter, Emanuela Aminise, 14, inside a coffin, in Port-au-Prince.(Carl Juste/Miami Herald/MCT).
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A group of women mourn and react is disbelief as the body of the daughter of the woman in the center turns missing in Port-au-Prince.(Carl Juste/Miami Herald/MCT).
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A woman whose leg was amputated tries to lie down on a make-shift bed inside the Eliazar Germain General Hospital where the injured seek medical help, but the medical facility has no doctors in Port-au-Prince. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald/MCT).
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A man looks at the body of a dead man outside the Villa Creole Hotel in Port-au-Prince.
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A young girl gets medical attention for her injuries outside the Villa Creole Hotel in Port-au-Prince.
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A young boy tries to rest on his mother’s lap outside the Villa Creole Hotel
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Gladys Loiuis Jeune is pulled alive from the rubble of her home after nearly 43 hours where she was greeted by her ecstatic daughter in Port-au-Prince. (Patrick Farrell/Miami Herald/MCT)
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A woman reaches joyously to Gladys Louis Jeune.
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The body of a person is trapped in the rubble of a home destroyed by the massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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A man carrying a coffin through the streets. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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People look on as others search for survivors under a church in Port-au-Prince.(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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Christopher Holmes from the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue searches for survivors in the rubble of a building in Port-au-Prince on 14th January.
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A corpse is carried on a stretcher down a street.
Message from US President: The Earthquake in Haiti
Posted: January 14, 2010 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, NZPacific, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: barack, destruction haiti, disaster, earthquake, emergency, Haiti, humanitarian, obama, president, relief, US response to Haiti, White House response to Haiti Leave a comment
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Cyclone Mick Claims 2 Lives in Fiji; Storm Downgraded
Posted: December 15, 2009 Filed under: Breaking News, Community, Current, Earthquake Tsunami Samoa/AmSampa 09, Fiji Coup, NZPacific, South Pacific Region | Tags: category i, Community, cyclone, disaster, Environment, fiji, fiji cyclone, flooding, impact, storm, villages 1 CommentMedia reports out this morning say Fijian authorities confirm two dead: one drowned in Keiyasi, and the other, a boy, hit by a falling tree in Nadarivatu. Cyclone has now been downgraded to a Category 1 and is thought to have reached its peak. Read the rest of this entry »
Honouring Samoa: A Father’s Miracle & The Realities of Surviving the Tsunami
Posted: December 14, 2009 Filed under: Breaking News, Community, Current, Earthquake Tsunami Samoa/AmSampa 09, Environment, Honour & Tribute, NZPacific, South Pacific Region | Tags: australian samoans, Breaking news tsunami, caught up in the tsunami samoa, Community, disaster, Emergencies And Disasters, honouring the dead, nz pacific news, rebuilding samoa, samoa, samoa tsunami, surviving samoa, tsunami samoa, tuesday 29th September 2009, Village 2 Comments[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=samoa+tsunami&iid=6665652″ src=”f/c/3/3/83_Magnitude_Earthquake_bac2.jpg?adImageId=8286010&imageId=6665652″ width=”500″ height=”333″ /]
[tweetmeme] By Steph Fa’amatala, in her own words
This story is dedicated to Kenape the boy who held onto me.
Part 1: Honouring Samoa: A Survivor Retells The Day The Tsunami Hit The South Coast
Part 2: Honouring Samoa: A Young Survivor Pays Tribute to the Village Boy Who Held Her
Part 3: Final
After that we were moved to Saanapu Uta to another one of Mum’s family. I found out the water almost reached my mum and my son and nephew and nieces and all the other little children but they were high enough. I was caught in the waves because I didn’t run. I was too eager to watch the event unfold in front of me, rather then worrying about my own safety and survival.
There were stories of how people managed to survive the waves, even the men and women that I noticed that were at the bottom of the hill.
Everyone survived, many with injuries, like the boy that helped me, and men that helped others.
Of all the miracles, one very special one stands out from the rest: a father who saved a daughter after she had already drowned. It happened. He held his two daughters as the waves came. They climbed a Ulu tree and one girl held on. But as the waves caught the father, and the other little one, he grabbed her arm with one hand and the tree with the other hand. The water came up to his waist but his little daughter was underneath the water. As the current was strong, he couldn’t pull her up and so she drowned. When the water stopped and was ready to go back out to shore, he quickly pulled her up above water placed her on his chest and did CPR on her. She came back to life in her father’s arms. No one died that day in our village.
We stayed on, my mother determined not to let the tsunami ruin our trip. So we stayed in Samoa and helped Mum’s family in Saanapu Tai rebuild, recreate, clean and organise for White Sunday, that was to happen the week after.
And it was a beautiful White Sunday because no one died from our village including the little girl who was saved by her father. She had the honour of singing the Samoan Anthem at the White Sunday service. That day proved that we can still smile after anything bad that’s thrown our way.
Leaving Samoa on Friday 16th October 2009: my mother and I cried and cried. After all the experiences that we are taking away with us. On arrival at Australia’s Melbourne airport a few hours later, my father just cried and held onto all of us. We will never ever forget this experience, and if i had a mind to think about this future I would have remembered a camera to share with you all the horrific experience that I have taken away with me from Samoa.
The Clean Up Is Harsh
The people who are rebuilding are the ones who were affected. How do I know this? Because I was there. People from other villages close to the mountains say: Do not go back to the ocean side. But it’s hard for those who have lived by the sea. My uncle had always said, The sea is dangerous and mysterious, but I will never be the same without it.
And that’s how and why most of the oceanside people go back to rebuild, despite the dangers.
The biggest risk right now is just the smell, and the diseases that might be carried in fishes swimming in the area. People with open wound injuries that are helping to rebuild the village can spread germs and bacteria as flies roam around the village all the time. Not enough nurses and doctors visits the affected areas as critical victims are being brought straight to the hospitals. While those with minor injuries stay back and build houses. Food poisoning spreads also from the flies and animals roaming around food. Unhygenic handling of food and beverages.
So it’s a great appreciation that there are Samoans around the world whom are thinking about those victims and trying their best to help in anyway possible, even prayers are mostly needed. Prayer is something that is very much appreciated and accepted by people of Samoa.
I don’t consider myself a victim. I consider myself a survivor. A lucky person to have gone through that. But the real victims are the ones back in our dear home land Western Samoa. Who have to live there, be reminded of that day, everyday, rebuild their lives again, move onto a brighter future and slowly start life the way it was before the tsunami. Thats how we are … thats how it will always be for Samoans.
No matter what happens to Samoa, all Samoans around the world will be affected because we are all joined, we are all united and we are all One. I am proud to say: I am a Samoan.
Fa’afetai tele lava to Steph for her story. Thank you Steph. All the best in the years to come.
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Photos: US Military Swing Into Action & Aid Haiti Amid A Barrage of Critics
Posted: January 20, 2010 | Author: PacificEyeWitness.com | Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, Opinion & Commentary, Politics, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: (Adrian, (Candice, (Carl, (CVN, (MRE), (R, 03000000, 03002000, 12, 12yearold, 13015001, 15, 16, 17, 18, 2010, 2nd, 70, 73, a, aboard, Affected, air, aircraft, angles, Army Soldier, Arrival, arrives, assist, assists, Barker/US, Barton/US, base, Berman, Berndt, bottled, boy, brain, brain surge, bring, Brought, campus, capital cities, carl vinson, Carolina, carrier, caused, cdm, charity and relief work, child's, Cite Soleil, citizen, citizens, class, clinic, Cmdr, CNN, coast, concrete, conducting, Correspondent, Crewman, cvn 70, deck, deliver, department, dis, disaster, distribute, Distributing, distribution, dr, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, drop, earthquake, Earthquake Relief, eat, effort, elevators, Emergencies And Disasters, evacuation, examines, facility, following, food, ford, friday, Geographical Locations, girl, Goldsboro, guard, Gupta, Haiti, Haitian, HAITIEARTHQUAKE, Harold, Hatian, hawk, head, health, helicopter, Henri, hispanic, horizontal, hospital, HTI, humanitarian, humanitarian relief, injured, injury, Jan, january, Jason, jerry, Kathryn, Killick, krt2010, krtcampus, krtcaribbean caribbean, krtdisaster disaster, krtdiversity diversity, krtedonly, krtquake earthquake quake, krtworld world, large, left, Los, LT, Lt. General Keen, magnitude, man, mct, mealreadyto, med, medical, members, military, Moore/US, moved, natural disaster, naval, navy, near, network, Neurosurgeon, news, Nimitzclass, north, nuclearpowered, Oberholtzer/US, occupation, one, operations, originally, outside, patients, pediatric, performing, performs, Photo/MCT), piece, points, Port-au-Prince, PortauPrince, practicing, prepare, quake, receive, receives, Recent, relief, removed, reporter, rescue, response, right, sailors, Sanjay, saturday, sea, Seahawk, security, services, severe, SH60B, SH60F, ship, ship's, staff, States', supplies, support, surgeon, SurgeoninChief, surgeons, surgery, tools, transfer, Transfers, treat, treatment, united, UPI//US, UPI/Daniel, UPI/Erin, UPI/Laura, UPI/Michael, us, us military, USS, USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), victim, victims, Villarreal/US, Vinson, wait, Walking, water, White/US, wing, woman women, workers, young, youth | Leave a comment[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=us+navy+haiti&iid=7586598″ src=”e/2/4/1/Haiti_Struggles_With_4dc5.jpg?adImageId=9302843&imageId=7586598″ width=”500″ height=”333″ /]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: Soldiers from the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division walk to a Navy helicopter to be dropped off to secure an area to drop in food and water supplies near the Cite Soleil area, as relief contiues to arrive after the massive earthquake January 18, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
[tweetmeme]Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake that may have killed thousands. Many buildings were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images).
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – JANUARY 18: A U.S. Army soldier carries an injured child from a helicopter as she is brought in for care after being hurt during the massive earthquake.
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Haitian-US citizens earthquake survivors waiting at the airport to leave Port-au-Prince return to USA, on January 17, 2010. The airport congestion also touched off diplomatic rows between the US military and other donor nations. France and Brazil both lodged official complaints that the US military, in control of the international airport, had denied landing permission to relief flights from their countries. Photo by Tolga Adanali/AA/ABACAPRESS.COM
Editor’s Note: Over recent days, there has been reported criticism from within Haiti, and formal complaints laid by France and Brazil, and its aid agencies, that the US soldiers were “occupying” Haiti, and not prioritising medical workers. Clearly, the US Military are providing medical aid, and other relief, on a scale we have never before witnessed. After the challenges with airport congestion in Haiti, and aid reportedly not reaching people in need, someone needed to step in, take control and ensure there was an orderly process in order at Haiti Airport. The Haitian Government, under the circumstances, were incapable of doing that. Good on the US Military for stepping in, and stepping on diplomatic and aid agency toes, to ensure aid reached people in need. Haitians were crying out for help. Now the US military are in Haiti, they’re now facing criticism for doing a job they were called on to do as part of the international effort. In case governments and aid agencies need reminding, the US military are responding , along with Mexico, France, Brazil, Israel and others, to a catastrophic crisis of devastating proportions. Give them a break .
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Patients affected by the recent earthquake wait outside the Killick Haitian Coast Guard base clinic to receive treatment from U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard medical workers, January 16, 2010. (Candice Villarreal/US Navy News Photo/MCT).
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Medical staff from the U.S. Navy, left, and U.S. Coast Guard, right, treat earthquake victims at the Killick Haitian Coast Guard base clinic in Haiti, January 16, 2010. (Candice Villarreal/US Navy News Photo/MCT).
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Naval Air Crewman 2nd Class Jason Harold of Goldsboro, North Carolina, transfers a young Haitian earthquake victim from an SH-60B Seahawk helicopter during a medical evacuation in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, January 16, 2010. (Candice Villarreal/US Navy News Photo/MCT).
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta examines an injured Haitian girl in the medical facility aboard the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) near Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, on January 18, 2010. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon and reporter for the CNN news network, was brought to the ship to assist in performing brain surgery on a 12-year-old Hatian girl. UPI/Erin Oberholtzer/U.S. Navy.
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Cmdr. Jerry Berman, left, a Navy surgeon, Dr. Henri R. Ford, Los Angles Pediatric Hospital Surgeon-in-Chief originally from Haiti, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a CNN medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon, and Lt. Cmdr. Kathryn Berndt, a Navy surgeon, prepare a 12-year-old Haitian girl with a severe head injury for surgery aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson near Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, on January 18, 2010. Surgeons removed a piece of concrete from the child’s brain caused by the earthquake in Haiti. UPI/Michael Barton/U.S. Navy.
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U.S. military members distribute food and water to Haitian citizens in Port-Au-Prince on January 17(UPI/US Navy)
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A Haitian boy receives his meal-ready-to eat (MRE) and bottled water from U.S. military members that are distributing food and water at one of the distribution points in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 17(UPI/Laura A. Moore/US Navy)
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A SH-60F Sea Hawk helicopter arrives to deliver water and supplies on January 15, 2010 to Port-au-Prince (UPI/Daniel Barker/U.S. Navy).
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Sailors from the United States Navy deliver an injured U.S. citizen to USS Carl Vinson on Friday, January 15, 2010. Health Services department moved the man to one of the deck elevators for transfer to the ship’s medical facility. Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing 17 are conducting humanitarian and disaster relief operations in Haiti in response to the January 12, 2010, earthquake disaster. (Adrian White/US Navy News Photo/MCT)
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U.S. Army soldiers unload food and supplies on January 15, 2010 from a U.S. Navy MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) at the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.(UPI/Candice B. Villarreal/U.S. Navy).