The United States is now operating at four airports to ferry aid and relief supplies to quake-devastated Haiti, a senior US military commander said Thursday.
In addition to the Caribbean nation’s main port of entry, Port-au-Prince airport, US forces were also now at work at airports in the coastal city of Jacmel.
They were also operating in the neighboring Dominican Republic at San Isidro and Barahona, US Southern Command chief General Douglas Fraser said.
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 in the coming days.'
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Good question...I read that a number of Medecins san frontieres/Doctors without borders planes could not land there and were diverted to the Dominican Republic.
ReplyDeleteI suppose the military troops are there to keep law and order, however that didn't stop a 15 year old child from being shot in the head yesterday though.