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[tekisui]

http://haiti.alltop.com/

[cali]

1. recommended. thanks tekisui.

[malaise]

2. Solly Mack posted this link on another thread

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6985914.ece

[tekisui]

4. The UN reveals that 200-250 of its staff were inside the UN peacekeeping headquarters

From that link.

[malaise]

6. The UN people suffered big time here

State Department reconnaissance flights are up and running to check out the airport. I don't get that since American Airlines left Haiti 90 minutes after the quake.

Some emergency people from the Caribbean may have landed already.

[Warpy]

7. This is starting to look alarmingly like the Tangshan quake

in 1976. I just hope the loss of life was less from this one because a lot of people would have been out in the streets returning home from work instead of in those rickety houses.

[Solly Mack]

3. k/r

[annabanana]

5. Thanks.. .KnR. . . n/t

[tekisui]

8. Reportedly: 100 per cent of the buildings in the capital have been damaged.

0810 GMT: Carel Pedre, a Port au Prince radio journalist, who was caught in the quake as he drove home in his car, tells the BBC that as far as he can tell 100 per cent of the buildings in the capital have been damaged.

"I saw smoke, I saw people crying, I saw people asking for help, I saw people bleeding," says Mr Pedre, talking by Skype internet phone powered by a generator.

"People are afraid to go back to their houses because of the aftershocks, which are coming really often, every 15-20 minutes. At the radio station, where I am, we have no walls because all the walls have fallen down, fallen down, fallen down. If people are going to sleep it is going to be in the streets, because they are afraid.

"Until now we can't get the people trapped under the rubble out. The thing is, we don't have the proper equipment to get the people out under the buildings that collapsed. So we will need two to three days to find out what has really happened, and start counting how many people we have lost."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6985914.ece

[Xenotime]

9. Why isn't the US doing something for those people.

This is really sad with all the suffering.

[tekisui]

10. The US is sending Haiti what ever they need.

The US is helping.

[cali]

11. The U.S. is mobilizing massive aid.

Obama promises all-out relief effort in Haiti

Wednesday, January 13, 2010; 10:54 AM

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama promised an all-out rescue and humanitarian effort Wednesday to help Haiti overcome a "cruel and incomprehensible" tragedy, the ruinous earthquake that ravaged the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

The president said the relief effort is gearing up even as the U.S. government works to account for Americans who were on the island nation when the disaster struck late Tuesday afternoon.

Obama also said he has named U.S. Agency for International Development administrator Rajiv Shah to coordinate American efforts, and the president called upon all nations to join in helping stricken Haitians.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/13/AR2010011300781.html

why not actually do some very easy research before making garbage accusations.

[Xenotime]

12. YEa!! More than asswipe bush ever did during his term!

O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA!