There have been some threads in the Big Forums but they tend to sink pretty fast. Jamaican newspaper reporting officials saying up to 44 people killed in three days of firefights gangs vs. army. Apparently violence is still going on tonight.
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Dudus still at large
Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, the No. 1 target which sparked an unprecedented assault by the Jamaican army on Tivoli Gardens and other crime havens, is still missing, even as dozens of fatalities were reported from gunfights across Kingston in three days of intense urban warfare.
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Public defender says 44 killed
Mark Beckford & Arthur Hall, Senior Staff Reporters
No fewer than 44 Jamaicans have been killed in the clashes between security forces and gunmen in west Kingston, according to Public Defender Earl Witter.
Witter, Political Ombudsman Herro Blair and Jamaica Red Cross officials visited Tivoli Gardens yesterday to conduct an independent assessment of the operations being carried out by the security forces.
"The police, I gather, have put out a figure of some 26 dead so far. Our own head count supercedes that. In fact, we visited the morgue and were told that no fewer than 35 bodies were lodged there, and most of them were males, mainly young adults," Witter told The Gleaner late last night.
Witter said that while he was at the morgue, a crew was leaving to go to Lizard Town area to gather another nine bodies. He said that his information suggests that the number will rise.
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Meade was less forceful in responding to the bombing allegations. Said he: "The Jamaica Defence Force owns no fighter jets, so I cannot speak to that. I am not sure what person refer to when they talk about bombs, so I can't speak to that either," said Meade.
The authorities made no mention of a drone which was seen monitoring the war zone from the skies on Monday.
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A drone overflying the war zone? Strange. Who has drones in Jamaica? Is the U.S. involved?
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100526/lead/lead11.html