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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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KEYWORDS: haiti; hunger; looters; looting
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To: Daisyjane69
I just read an article this morning where Obama had “taken the lead”. It's been 4 days and now we learn that the UN is sitting on 40,000 TONS of food. Damn right, I would loot too.
21 posted on 01/15/2010 7:07:27 AM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

All you head in the sand people who think poor starving Hatians snatched that food are really in lala land. That food was heisted by or with the complicit actions of US personnell. It will be sold to the highest bidder. Corrupt animals and Democraps.


22 posted on 01/15/2010 7:08:14 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: Daisyjane69
Not a police officer to be seen .... anywhere. No EMS, no fire department...nothing. Not even a token appearance of first responders. Unreal.

Welcome to Haiti where the only police are enforcement thugs of the rulers, there is no EMS at all, the fire department is something most Haitians have never even heard of and the idea of "first responders" is so foreign that only medical workers who have lived in the U.S. would even have a concept to work with.

There is no governmental services. The only people with a uniform are there to beat you and take your things.

This is the harsh reality for most of the world, and Haiti (before the earthquake) lives in the darkest, dankest pit of that reality.

23 posted on 01/15/2010 7:09:16 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: tobyhill
quote " the agency did not know how much aid was stolen or exactly when it was taken. "

SURE , with u.n. in charge ,,,,,,,,

24 posted on 01/15/2010 7:09:26 AM PST by piroque
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To: tobyhill
Helicopter drops of food and water?
25 posted on 01/15/2010 7:11:00 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: bboop
The UN is the most worthless organization in the history of the world yet this is exactly where the International Red Cross donations get funneled into.
26 posted on 01/15/2010 7:12:05 AM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill
So, the UN had 15,000 tons of food already in Haiti that wan't already in the process of being distributed? Seriously?
27 posted on 01/15/2010 7:12:11 AM 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: Lion Den Dan

Haliburton and Dick Cheney stole the food...

Actually, The U.N. workers overseeing the food warehouse were probably out operating child prostitution rings when the quake happened.


28 posted on 01/15/2010 7:12:12 AM PST by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: NEMDF
Sounds like this food was for hurricanes, not earthquakes. WTH?

Not many places stockpile food and water in anticipation of earthquakes. Haiti takes damage from hurricanes pretty regularly, which ironically is a fortunate thing. If hurricanes were not a continuous threat, the food may not have been stored there.

29 posted on 01/15/2010 7:12:20 AM PST by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: tobyhill

To quote my dad:

Obama is like tits on a bull.


30 posted on 01/15/2010 7:12:28 AM PST by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: Doohickey

They are waiting on that “Global Warming” induced hurricane.


31 posted on 01/15/2010 7:13:28 AM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill; jersey117; Marmolade

If the UN spent less time trying to bring about the fall of Irael and less time meddling in the affairs of sovereign states, and spent more time developing contingency plans for emergencies like this and for developing the capability to implement those plans, the world would be a much better place.

In all the years of its existence they still don’t have a rapid contingency plan for moving emergency supplies to people isolated by natural disasters? It’s not as if this type of disaster has never happened before.

What a bunch of maroons.


32 posted on 01/15/2010 7:14:02 AM PST by Iron Munro (<p><i>")
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To: Daisyjane69

On one hand I’m glad we’re sending in troops, but w/out a Haitian police presence (which evidently there isn’t) and w/out the UN peacekeepers (which are largely unaccounted for and/or unorganized at this point)...that means the US soldiers may become the policemen. And I’d hate to be the one standing between a man whose children are starving and food that is being “stored.” It will probably get very ugly before the crisis is past.

I’m in Florida, and after a hurricane people can get really agressive, and they’re usually just waiting for ice. The Haitians are going on day 3 w/out food or decent water, plus there are bodies decomposing all around them (the stench has to be awful.) Desperate times lead to desperate measures, I’m not really sure who’s in charge but something needs to happen soon.


33 posted on 01/15/2010 7:14:52 AM PST by dawn53
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To: tobyhill
Hate to say it, but it reminds me of Sally Struthers on South park hiding in a warehouse full of food eating chocolate cake while the Africans starved to death outside the door.


34 posted on 01/15/2010 7:15:00 AM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: TheDon
It’s not looting, it’s survival. People can’t be expected to sit around and starve to death.

Yeah. This appears to be food they had stockpiled to give away in the event of a hurricane disaster. Well, Haiti doesn't HAVE a hurricane disaster right now, they have an EARTHQUAKE one. I realize that a whole bunch of UN people are missing, and probably the ones that are not are rather stunned (I would be) and reacting poorly, but they needed to release this food anyway.

35 posted on 01/15/2010 7:15:29 AM PST by nina0113
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
However, hang each and every person selling food out of a UN marked bag.

From a public lamppost, with a sign around their neck.

36 posted on 01/15/2010 7:17:01 AM PST by nina0113
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To: jersey117

all the UN bureacrats are dead or evacuated for medical treatment (Guantanamo), and the Haitian police force they operated disappeared, the 7,000 so-called “peacekeepers”? Have seen a few blue helmets on TV, no word on who is commanding them. Mostly Brazilians.

The food in the warehouses was probably a month’s supply if doled out by an organized feeding system


37 posted on 01/15/2010 7:18:28 AM PST by silverleaf
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To: TornadoAlley3

“Helicopter drops of food and water?” My thoughts exactly.
Doesn’t Obama have a few planes & helicopters handy? What about that garden Michelle had going in the backyard?


38 posted on 01/15/2010 7:21:14 AM PST by classical artist
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To: tobyhill
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.

....or if it was even in fact there!

39 posted on 01/15/2010 7:21:18 AM PST by Roccus (ABLE DANGER?????...................What's an ABLE DANGER???)
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To: tobyhill

Why are people looting the UN food warehouse? Because people are hungry and that’s where the food is.

The Lord helps those who help themselves.


40 posted on 01/15/2010 7:21:21 AM PST by smokingfrog (Don't mess with the mocking bird! - http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
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