Published on Thursday, March 11, 2010
Private Firms Line Up as Haiti Opens for Business
by Agence France Presse
MIAMI - Haiti's road to recovery took a new twist Wednesday as a trade group representing private security contractors wrapped up a conference on reconstruction in the earthquake-battered nation.
Haitians demonstrate against hunger in their camp in Port-au-Prince. Haiti's road to recovery took a new twist Wednesday as a trade group representing private security contractors wrapped up a conference on reconstruction in the earthquake-battered nation. (Photo:Thony Belizaire/AFP)"You don't want to look like you're profiteering off situations like these," Derrell Griffith, project director at Sabre International, said. "But there is a need and the people need it quick."
The conference was organized by the Association of the Stability Operations Industry, also known as IPOA, representing some 60 companies working in logistics and security, many of them active in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/11-2
Private Firms Line Up as Haiti Opens for Business
by Agence France Presse
MIAMI - Haiti's road to recovery took a new twist Wednesday as a trade group representing private security contractors wrapped up a conference on reconstruction in the earthquake-battered nation.
Haitians demonstrate against hunger in their camp in Port-au-Prince. Haiti's road to recovery took a new twist Wednesday as a trade group representing private security contractors wrapped up a conference on reconstruction in the earthquake-battered nation. (Photo:Thony Belizaire/AFP)"You don't want to look like you're profiteering off situations like these," Derrell Griffith, project director at Sabre International, said. "But there is a need and the people need it quick."
The conference was organized by the Association of the Stability Operations Industry, also known as IPOA, representing some 60 companies working in logistics and security, many of them active in Iraq and Afghanistan.
full article;
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/11-2