WASHINGTON MONITORING, NOT INTERFERING In Haiti
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton urged the U.S. and Haitian governments on Friday to resolve the case of 10 American missionaries accused of trying to take children illegally out of quake-hit Haiti.
"What's important now is for the government of Haiti and the government of the United States to get together and work through this," Clinton told CNN in Port-au-Prince.
The missionaries' lawyer, Edwin Coq, said he had requested the 10 be released provisionally pending the further hearings, but no decision was immediately taken on that.
Coq said the Americans, who had been held at police headquarters up to now, were taken after the questioning on Friday to established prisons -- the women to a women's prison in the Petionville suburb and the men to the quake-damaged central prison in the capital.
The U.S. government, which is spearheading the big relief operation in Haiti, has said it is providing the Americans with consular access and monitoring their case, but it has made clear it does not want to interfere.
"Obviously this is a matter for the Haitian judicial system," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is Bill Clinton's wife, told reporters in Washington.

Jobi Rosen of Scottsdale, AZ. Has a speedy solution to the problem. She has put pen to paper and verbalized what a lot of Americans think about our tax dollars being strewn around the world to countries that take every opportunity to slap us silly.

Haiti Files Kidnap Charges Article: by Jobi
I have just read the article wherein 10 U.S. Missionaries were aiding orphaned children as well as children whose parents gave them to these missionaries in order for their children to gain a better life in the U.S. Certainly, it was common sense to file whatever papers would be necessary to remove the children and no papers were filed. However, these were church going Americans who only wanted to help out in a country that is still reeling from extreme disaster. A country that is extremely poor. These Americans have no history of any sort of wrong doing. This is what makes me angry. We have an administration that pledges support based on our money to a country whose government has no appreciation for the help that they get, I am sick and tired of throwing my money and aid to governments who, in turn, take a hard stand on my countrymen who are there only to help. Enough is enough. Our government, instead of being "open to discuss other legal avenues for the defendants" should pull out all support from that country and remove themselves immediately unless our missionaries are released. It is time to play hardball. I am fed up with a government that worries more about what the rest of the world thinks and doesn't do what is right. It is time to man up.