In Haiti, U.S. troops embrace a new role

In Haiti, U.S. troops embrace a new role

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Cite Soleil looks like a place where an American soldier might be expected to fight. An impossibly crowded warren of tin-roofed shacks, open sewers and blind alleys, it is one of the poorest


slums in the Americas, with a long history of unrest, crime and violence.


So picture the scene: Just as dawn was breaking Sunday, a battle-hardened platoon from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division rolled into the area behind a well-armed convoy of Brazilian soldiers


attached to the United Nations’ longtime peacekeeping mission in Haiti.Smoke from cooking and trash fires filled the air, reducing visibility in places to less than a city block but failing


to cover the smell of rotting garbage and human waste. Pigs and feral dogs rooted through trash.


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