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2025-11-17 Caribbean-Latin America

US Marines exchanged gunfire with suspected gang members in Haiti, official says

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-11-17 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1770 views ] Top

1 Arm the guards with SuperSoakers charged with Holy Water. It’s gotta feel like Omega Man or Road Warrior to be stationed there. Your retailer has gotta really hate you.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-11-17 06:05|| 2025-11-17 06:05|| Front Page Top

2 Red State opines:

What is the United States gaining from maintaining the embassy there, save to put American citizens and service members in harm's way? The embassy at present is maintaining minimal staff and operations, including such things as visa processing.

Maybe it's time to consider shutting the embassy down until some semblance of sanity returns to Haiti.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2025-11-17 09:04|| 2025-11-17 09:04|| Front Page Top

3 In addition to their secondary trade in passports and visas, embassies provide a base for intelligence operations and maybe some SIGINT.

Posted by SteveS 2025-11-17 09:16|| 2025-11-17 09:16|| Front Page Top

4 That's simply preposterous Steve. You surely know "gentlemen do not read other gentlemen's mail."

Posted by Besoeker 2025-11-17 10:11|| 2025-11-17 10:11|| Front Page Top

5 UN staff in Haiti told to stay off streets after gang coalition flexes muscle, US Marines face gunfire

Jimmy Chérizier, widely known as "Barbecue," appeared in a video shared Sunday by an independent Haitian media outlet, urging people to stay home on Nov. 17 so they wouldn’t "be a victim," according to a brief translation of his remarks.

"Those who don't need to, do not go out into the streets. Leave the streets to 'Viv Ansanm' and the police so that we can confront them," "Barbecue" is quoted as saying, according to HaitiLibre, an independent Haitian news site based in Port-au-Prince.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-11-17 12:21|| 2025-11-17 12:21|| Front Page Top

6 In addition to

Secured embassies also provide havens for 'unaffiliated operatives' with communication channels, lender motor pools and offsite safehouses as well as arms rooms and medical facilities.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-11-17 12:27|| 2025-11-17 12:27|| Front Page Top

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