Haiti: U.S.lifts 13-Year Arms Embargo

[Rose Siding]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The United States lifted a 13-year arms embargo on Haiti, Haitian officials said, while U.N. peacekeepers and an ill-equipped police force faced sporadic violence on Tuesday in strongholds belonging to ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

While there was no immediate confirmation on the arms embargo from U.S. officials, the U.S. State Department has said it would consider individual requests from the Haitian government for weapons purchases.
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The interim government ordered an unspecified number of weapons for Haiti's 3,000-strong police force after the United States lifted the arms embargo last week, Justice Minister Bernard Gousse said. U.S. officials have refused to comment on the order.

The U.S. State Department said Friday that "restrictions on arms exports" to Haiti remained in place but promised to "consider requests from the interim government."

The United States imposed the embargo in 1991 after a military coup first ousted Aristide. U.S. troops restored Aristide — Haiti's first democratically elected leader — in 1994 but maintained the arms embargo.

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[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Just what they need!!!

More armed militias on every side imaginable....

:eyes:

[leesa]

2. Oh good. More money for Bush's arms dealer friends.

[GHOSTDANCER]

3. Hey..... We gota sell them Iraqi AK's to someone that can't afford better.

lol the whole thing is sick city.

[G_j]

4. what an outrage!

give the thugs more weapons, but then again nobody really seems to care what happens there.
:cry:

[BayCityProgressive]

5. of course

now that the leftist is gone they can arm death squads to re-enslave the blacks. This shouldnt be surprising to anyone anymore.

[MO_Dem]

6. Boosh motto is

"Let the wars begin"

[struggle4progress]

7. Shrubya brings the joys of "ownership society" to starving Haiti. eom

[Voltaire99]

8. Let them eat M-16s. (n/t)