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Looters raid U.N. food warehouses in Haiti
MSNBC ^ | 1/15/2010 | AP

Posted on 01/15/2010 6:52:25 AM PST by tobyhill

Looters have broken into U.N. food warehouses in Haiti's crumbled capital, an official said Friday, as security and logistical challenges mounted for groups trying to feed at least 2 million people reeling from a devastating earthquake.

The U.N. World Food Program had 15,000 tons of food aid in Haiti prior to Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake, stocks designed for hurricane relief. Spokeswoman Emilia Casella said local partners reported that the U.N. warehouse in Port-au-Prince's Cite Soleil neighborhood was looted but the agency did not know how much aid was stolen or exactly when it was taken.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: haiti; hunger; looters; looting
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To: Amos the Prophet

Totally agree that people who are starving will do what they need to do in order to survive. I was just suggesting a reason why the UN hasn’t responded.


61 posted on 01/15/2010 8:47:02 AM PST by Madam Theophilus
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To: netmilsmom
As they didn’t state how much was taken, I would like to assume that someone was just feeding his kids.A

It all was taken months ago.

UN employees stole the food entrusted to them and the profits are lining their pockets.

Now with the earthquake what can they say but, "Hey it was looted!"

How could individuals carry off 15,000 tons of food in their hands? In three days? Show me the satellite pictures of that mob.

62 posted on 01/15/2010 9:31:21 AM PST by Cheburashka (It's a _happy_ Russian novel. Everybody still dies, but everybody dies happy.)
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To: Doohickey

who would you propose distribute it, and how?


63 posted on 01/15/2010 9:50:32 AM PST by Chet 99
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To: silverleaf

Good Lord, proof reading is our friend. Yes, I meant UN personnell, the thieving, low lifes.


64 posted on 01/15/2010 9:50:44 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: sinanju

What was that line from “Blood Diamonds”? TIA—This Is Africa. Break your hearts trying to fix, and you can’t fix. The only thing that would work would be to make it a colony of the US, occupy it for twenty years, and that would make us the gad guy.


65 posted on 01/15/2010 9:58:17 AM PST by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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To: tobyhill

Entirely understandable.


66 posted on 01/15/2010 10:14:28 AM PST by Ciexyz
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To: Cheburashka

Whoa!
That is a whole different picture.


67 posted on 01/15/2010 10:16:30 AM PST by netmilsmom (I am Ilk)
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To: smokingfrog
The Lord helps those who help themselves.

I defy you to find this in the Scriptures.

68 posted on 01/15/2010 12:01:11 PM PST by naturalized
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To: naturalized
You are correct. No such thing is quoted in the bible.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Eph 4:28

69 posted on 01/15/2010 4:13:48 PM PST by smokingfrog (Don't mess with the mocking bird! - http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
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To: Chet 99

Guess the looters have rendered that point moot, huh?


70 posted on 01/15/2010 6:47:18 PM PST by Doohickey (I try to take my days one at a time, but occasionally several days attack me at once.)
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To: Chet 99

Guess the looters have rendered that point moot, huh?


71 posted on 01/15/2010 6:47:26 PM PST by Doohickey (I try to take my days one at a time, but occasionally several days attack me at once.)
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To: Chet 99

Guess the looters have rendered that point moot, huh?


72 posted on 01/15/2010 6:47:29 PM PST by Doohickey (I try to take my days one at a time, but occasionally several days attack me at once.)
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