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UNITED NATIONS Feb 14, 2007 (AP)— The Security Council will extend the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti for eight months following an agreement between the United States and China on the length of the new mandate, council diplomats said Wednesday.

Peacekeepers arrived in Haiti in July 2004 to quell unrest sparked by an uprising that ousted former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

In a report in December, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan recommended the mission be extended for one year after its mandate expires Feb. 15, a view backed by the Friends of Haiti whose members include the United States, Canada, Brazil, France and Britain.

--- In 2000 Annan recommended the UN leave Haiti. The Friends of Haiti (Elite) must have clout.

The U.N. peacekeeping force which includes about 125 Chinese police officers has recently stepped up offensives to root out armed gangs that hold sway in slums in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. The gangs are blamed for a wave of kidnappings and other violence prompted by the uprising that toppled Aristide.

---- Gangs. Not freedom fighters, not rebels, or dissidents, insurgents, contras, militants, opposition, not even terrorists with a cause – but gangs. Note too the MSM trend to label fighters in Africa's hot-spots as "gangs." I.e., those Nigerian "gangs" attacking Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon subsidiaries.

Sort of ties into the MSM mindset that white folks take things, black people loot.

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