US paratroopers set up bases beyond Haitian capital

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Haiti) (AFP) – Paratroopers from the US army’s 82nd Airborne deployed Monday out of the main Haitian airport in waves of navy Seahawk helicopters to set up bases from which to begin humanitarian operations.
Lieutenant Colonel Pat Hynes took the first battalion to a walled compound north of Port-au-Prince, the abandoned site of a planned [...]