GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- The Haiti earthquake is giving the American base at Guantanamo Bay a new mission: supplying aid to the devastated island nation and potentially detaining thousands of Haitian migrants captured at sea.
President Barack Obama's deadline for closing the base prison expires Friday with no new date in sight, but a huge effort to provide earthquake aid is just getting started.
The U.S. has designated Guantanamo, less than 200 miles from Haiti, as the hub of the aid operation. Dozens of helicopters and planes take off daily to ferry supplies and personnel to the stricken country or to American ships off the coast.
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As we all know there was currently a earthquake in haiti. GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba decided to help them out in a very tremendous way. They decided to help some of them who were rapped out at sea, and supplying aid to them injured and disturbed ones.President Obama decided to gather up the prison people and make them help with the problems going on in haiti. Guantanamo is less than 200 miles from Haiti so therefor, dozens of helicopters and planes take off to assist with the hatian patients. Also American ships off of the coast bring numerous amounts of supplies that they need.
