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November 8, 2008

School Collapse in Haiti Kills 80, Hundreds = Trapped

3D2008_11_haiti.jpg=20 Dozens of children have died in Haiti after a=20 school collapsed near Port-au-Prince, the nation's capital. The = death toll=20 is now reported to be over 80 and rapidly approaching 100 . The collapse = took=20 place around 10 a.m. yesterday morning in a school with more than 700 = students=20 of ages ranging from 10 to 20. A journalist with the Haiti Press Network = reported that more than 200 students were still trapped in the=20 rubble as of midnight last night and another 200 have been = treated by=20 medical staff in the area. However two of the three nearby hospitals = have been=20 shut down due to worker strikes.

The rescue effort is being overseen by Haitian President Rene Preval = and=20 Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis. Preval told the press he could hear = children stuck inside calling for help as he visited the disaster site. = One Red=20 Cross official who was talking to rescuers on the scene said, = "On the=20 phone you can hear so many children, you know, crying, crying, and = saying, "This=20 one is dead. that one is dead.'"

Questions are already being raised about whether the school was = overpopulated=20 past what its capacity should have been. The school has been described = as=20 "poorly built" and is located in a very impoverished part of town.

Photo Courtesy AP Photo/Ramon = Espinosa

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[1]=20 | 11/08/08=20 10:36AM
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Two out of three hospitals are on strike. That is not good. Bush! = Send in=20 some help for those innocent victims instead of that bullshit war you = started=20 half a world away.

[2]=20 | 11/08/08=20 10:54AM
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Haiti-ist is down today?

or have we decided to cover international news here as = well?

[3]=20 | 11/08/08=20 11:07AM
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ever think that maybe there's a lot of haitians in NYC tj?

[4]=20 | 11/08/08=20 11:21AM
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Yeah, NYC and the surrounding area does have a lot of Haitians. =

[5]=20 | 11/08/08=20 11:55AM
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if we start with news of all the nationalities in NY we'd end with a = good=20 news blog, not like the media we're fed (fed up?)

[6]=20 | 11/08/08=20 12:58PM
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Reminds me of the collapsed school in China over the = summer.

[7]=20 | 11/08/08=20 02:03PM
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In 1994 Clinton ordered the US invasion of Haiti, declared victory in = 1995,=20 and pulled the US troops out.

The United Nations has had thousands of peace keepers and aid workers = in=20 Haiti since 2004.

Slick Willie knew better than to throw more American lives down the = crapper-=20 he left Haiti to our International Betters to work their magic = on.

[8]=20 | 11/08/08=20 03:59PM
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#7, TSOL, Slick Willie left Haiti because he hates black people.

I wonder what THE ONE will do about Haiti?

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