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People wait in line for food rations in the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Port-au-Prince Wednesday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — In a quake-smashed city where hundreds of thousands go to sleep hungry and hurting in sordid street camps, 8-year-old Benoit Wodson has at least a bunk bed, food and friends to play with on a lawn beneath the mango trees. The boy with the big grin and the big scar across his nose wants something more, though: “Can we go look for my mum? Can we go look for my parents?” he asked a worker on Wednesday at the orphanage where he’s been brought. The smallest survivors of Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake are growing into one of the biggest problems in its aftermath. Countless thousands of children are scattered among Port-au-Prince’s makeshift camps of homeless and many have nobody to care for them, aid workers say, leaving them without protection against disease, child predators and other risks. “They are extremely vulnerable,” said Kate Conradt, a spokeswoman for the aid group Save the Children. She said U.N. experts estimate there may be 1 million youngsters who lost at least one parent in the Jan. 12 quake or are separated from their families. Some young Haitians are even being released from hospitals with no one to care for them. There just aren’t enough beds.
U.N. workers had spotted Wodson for several days, alone and begging on the street in the refugee camp that has filled the Champs de Mars plaza before the national palace. When a reporter asked him what happened, he said in a matter-of-fact way, “I felt the ground shaking and I just stood there. I saw the National Palace falling down.” The l’Escale orphanage where Wilson stayed is among a handful of private institutions around Portau-Prince that the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF is using for Haitian children separated from parents. Ringed by a big stone wall, the orphanage had a couple of dozen children before. UNICEF has brought eight since the quake with five more on the way, a tiny fraction of those in need. UNICEF, Save the Children and the Red Cross have begun registering at-risk children and sending some to orphanages such as l’Escale — the name means “in transit” — where they can be temporarily sheltered, said Bo Viktor Nylund, a senior UNICEF adviser for child protection. The Connecticut-based Save the Children, meanwhile, has set up “Child Spaces” for unaccompanied youths in 13 makeshift settlements. And the three agencies are working to reunite families, by creating a joint database of separated family members.
Al-Qaida group claims hotel blasts in Baghdad BAGDHAD (AP) — An al-Qaida front group in Iraq claimed Wednesday it carried out the deadly bombings against Baghdad hotels earlier this week, boasting how its suicide bombers could breach the extensive Iraqi security, and that even deadlier attacks were to come. The same group, the Islamic State of Iraq, has claimed responsibility for three previous waves of coordinated bombings in Baghdad going back to August. The attacks have hit government offices or high-profile sites in the Iraqi capital. In a statement posted Wednesday on a militant Web site, the al-Qaida group claimed responsibility for the triple suicide blasts on Monday that targeted three hotels favored by Western journalists and security
contractors. At least 41 people were killed. It claimed the suicide car bombers were able to get through checkpoints and bypass security barriers. Iraqi authorities have faced an outcry over apparent security lapses and the latest attacks could increase pressure on the Shiite-led government before national elections on March 7. The authenticity of the Islamic State of Iraq claim could not be independently verified, but it was posted on a Web site commonly used for militant messaging. The statement said the latest attacks — which it called “a fourth thunderous wave” — seek to show that government leaders and foreigners are not safe in Baghdad.