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"Guido Bertolaso, Italy's top disaster expert (and cabinet minister), has attack the US response to the Haiti earthquake, criticising its lack of organisation and the reliance on soldiers with no training in humanitarian operations.
Mr Bertolaso, head of Italy's civil protection service who received international acclaim for his handling of an L'Aquila earthquake last April, described the response as "a pathetic situation which could have been much better organised".
Mr Bertolaso, who arrived in Haiti on Friday, told Italy's RAI state television that Washington had made "a show of force", but military officers co-ordinating the emergency had no links with the humanitarian groups in the Caribbean island state.
"We are missing a leader, a co-ordination capacity that goes beyond military discipline," said Mr Bertolaso, who holds the rank of a government minister, late on Sunday.
"The Americans are extraordinary, but when you are facing a situation in chaos, they tend to confuse military intervention with emergency aid, which cannot be entrusted to the armed forces." [In Full]
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