Gates: No policing role for US in Haiti

US defence secretary Robert Gates said the US would not have an expanded policing role in quake-ravaged Haiti, but troops could defend themselves and civilians or foreigners if lawlessness boiled over.

Mr Gates’ comments to reporters travelling with him to India for talks on defence co-operation, trade and relations between India and Pakistan, came after a French minister called for a United Nations investigation into the dominant US role in Haiti.