27017: (news) Chamberlain: Jordanian UN peacekeeper killed in Haiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

     PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Dec 26 (Reuters) - A Jordanian peacekeeper
taking part in a U.N. mission in Haiti was gunned down during the holiday
weekend in a Port-au-Prince slum, the United Nations said on Monday.
     The peacekeeper, identified as Capt. Yousef Mubark Muflih Algader, was
killed during an attack on Saturday by unidentified gunmen in the slum of
Cite Soleil, said the U.N. communications office in Haiti.
     The Jordanian captain was shot in the head as he was patrolling the
volatile slum.
     He became the 10th U.N. peacekeeper killed since the deployment of the
U.N. mission in the aftermath of the February 2004 ouster by armed gangs
and former soldiers of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
     Controlled by street gangs, some of which remain loyal to Aristide,
large parts of the slum of Cite Soleil are no-go zones for the 8,000 U.N.
troops and international police in the troubled Caribbean country.
     A Canadian police officer serving with the U.N. force was fatally shot
Dec. 20 on a road near Cite Soleil.
     Haiti is scheduled to hold oft-delayed elections to elect a successor
to Aristide on Jan. 8. But election preparations have fallen far behind
schedule and officials say they are likely to postpone the elections for a
fourth time.