Force with no firepower


Police officers from Kenya taking part in the Multinational Security Support Mission in Port-au-Prince. — Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times

THE clock is ticking on an international police force sent to restore order in Haiti. Money is running out and bodies are piling up.

The Multinational Security Support ­mission, a force of mostly Kenyan police officers known as the MSS, arrived in Haiti one year ago, intent on pulling ­Haiti out of the clutches of gang chaos.

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