25921: Hermantin(News)U.S. WILL ARM HAITIAN POLICE (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>

Posted Saturday August 6, 2005
Miami Herald


HAITI

U.S. WILL ARM HAITIAN POLICE

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- The United States will provide Haitian police with pistols, 
rifles and tear gas to aid the fight against armed militants ahead of elections 
this fall, the American ambassador said Friday.

The shipment is an exception to the arms embargo that the United States imposed 
on the Caribbean nation in 1991, and is intended to help control the wave of 
violence that threatens to undermine elections scheduled for October and 
November, U.S. Ambassador James Foley said.