THE S1EGE OF MIREBALAIS
A REPORTER AT LARGE about Special Forces troops in Haiti as part of Operation Uphold Democracy. Writer follows the men led by Captain Jonathan Carroll, 29,…
Captain Carroll to the Haitian villagers: "He was a soldier, he told them. Just a soldier. His commanders had ordered him to secure the peace above all, and to do so without taking sides." The crowd wanted him to build schools, repair dams, bring electricity, arrest the Macoutes.