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01/07/2005:

"Payoffs to Haiti's renegade soldiers won't buy peace"

While the Bush administration wages war against terrorism in Iraq, the government it propped up in Haiti has caved in to the terrorists who've seized control of parts of that impoverished Caribbean island nation.

Last week, Haiti's interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue began handing out checks to members of his country's former army, a brutal military force that was disbanded in 1995. So far, more than 200 former soldiers have received checks. The money, which the renegade soldiers say is back pay that covers the past 10 years, is actually a thinly veiled blackmail payment.

Full Article : news.yahoo.com