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U.S. Prepares Guantanamo Bay For Possible Influx of Haitians
U.S. prepares Guantanamo Bay for possible influx of Haitians
By Laurie Ure | CNN
The U.S. military is gearing up for a possible influx of Haitians fleeing their earthquake-stricken country at an Army facility not widely known for its humanitarian missions: Guantanamo Bay.
Soldiers at the base have set up tents, beds and toilets, awaiting possible orders from the secretary of defense to proceed, according to Maj. Diana Haynie, a spokeswoman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay.
"There's no indication of any mass migration from Haiti," Haynie stressed. "We have not been told to conduct migrant operations."
But the base is getting ready "as a prudent measure," Haynie said, since "it takes some time to set things up."...
In addition, Gen. Douglas Fraser, commander of U.S. Southern Command, said the Navy has set up a "logistics field," an area to support bigger ships in the region. The military can now use that as a "lily pad" to fly supplies from ships docked at Guantanamo over to Haiti, he said.
"Guantanamo Bay proves its value as a strategic hub for the movement of supplies and personnel to the affected areas in Haiti," Haynie said. Read more.
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These articles provide additional information we should all know about regarding the "interests" of the or some of the ruling corporatists of the U.S. when it comes to Haiti. This includes the unjustifiably large U.S. military build-up there probably not being only, if at all, about the situation in Haiti, and Haiti's oil or energy and mineral resources.
"Oil in Haiti - Economic Reasons for the UN/US Occupation"
by Marguerite Laurent, Open Salon, open.salon.com, Jan 22 2010, Jan. 13th at Open Salon, and first published in Oct. 2009
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17149
I'll quote the bio. for her at the end of the article.
Quote: "Marguerite Laurent/Ezili Dantò is an award winning playwright, a performance poet, political and social commentator, author and human rights attorney. She was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in the USA. For more go to Marguerite Laurent/Ezili Dantò website at http://www.ezilidanto.com".
I recommend checking out her website, which remaps to www.margueritelaurent.com , and I guess that Ezili Dantò is simply her real Haitian name.
"Haiti: Bonanza for Foreign Mining Companies
Interview with Marguerite Laurent / Ezili Dantò"
by Chris Scott, CKUT.ca, Jan 23 2010, originally April 29 2009
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17165
"A Haiti Disaster Relief Scenario Was Envisaged by the US Military One Day Before the Earthquake"
by Professor Michel Chossudovsky, Jan 21 2010
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17122
Marguerite Laurent's first article, above, provides links to some other articles and I think one is for a transcript of the interview with Chris Scott, but posted at another website.
The interview by Chris Scott with Marguerite Laurent is only a transcript in the above article, but I did a Web search and found a link for the MP3 at her website as well as at OpEdNews.com.
At her website, the link is entitled, "CKUT Interview (in English - 34:03) with Ezili Dantò on Mining of Haiti Resources and Riches by Chris Scott for CKUT ...", in the following page, and it's the same link in the OpEdNews article.
www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/jan_09.html
Mike Corbeil