Haitian police have arrested 10 US nationals on suspicion of trying to illegally take 33 children abroad.
They say the Americans were held on the border with the Dominican Republic.
The group from Idaho-based charity New Life Children's Refuge told the BBC they wanted to take quake orphans to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.
But Haitian police said the Americans had no papers authorising them to take children out of the country. They have not yet been charged.
Haiti imposed new controls on adoptions to prevent child trafficking after the 12 January earthquake that killed up to 200,000 people.
'Abduction'
The Americans are being held at a police station next to the airport in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince.
They told the BBC that their arrest was a mistake and that they were going to take a group of earthquake orphans to an orphanage set up across the border.
They said they thought they had had a permission to travel to the Dominican Republic.
"This is an abduction, not an adoption," Haitian Social Affairs Minister Yves Christallin was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.
"What is important for us in Haiti is that a child needs to have an authorisation from this ministry to leave the country," Mr Christallin said.
He added that the children involved were aged two months to 12 years.
The earthquake destroyed a number of Haitian orphanages and crippled relevant government agencies.
Local officials have expressed fears that child traffickers will take advantage of the situation to smuggle children abroad.
We would like to remind in this connection that some time ago a TV station of black Americans, Afri Synergy, brodcasted sensational accusations of the Jews.
A CNN-based report on the Afri Synergya, US television station of black Americans, disclosed that Jewish militants from the Zionist "army" who allegedly came to Haiti to "help earthquake victims", in reality set up a military camp in this country calling it a "field hospital" where injured Haitians are brought and slaughtered for organs under the pretext of "providing necessary medical aid".
A TV moderator of the US channel reminded that "Israelis" had been already accused of killing Palestinians to slaughter them for organs that they later sell, and called Haitians to be vigilant.
The TV channel Afri Synergy says that the crimes of the Jews in Haiti are thoroughly concealed by American US and other Western mass-media.
The Afri Synergy has also says that during the flooding in New Orleans Jewish groups committed the same crimes on the territory of the United States.
The first part of the program of the Afri Synergy can be seen with this link.
In the second part of the T. West program "Round Table" devoted to black solidarity, the US channel Afri Synergy stressed that Jews from the occupied Palestine were the only "helpers" who brought to Haiti a "well-equipped hospital", and even the wealthy US did not do that. Once again T. Wes called for vigilance against the Jewish "help".
T. West recalled the history of Haiti.
"Historically, with the French, the ancestors of many of those who now rule in "Israel" played a huge role in Haiti and the enslavement of African peoples in the Western Hemisphere and elsewhere".
The moderator of the Afro-American TV channel said that after the first part of his documentation of the Jewish crimes in Haiti had been aired, he received threats from certain individuals who call themselves Zionists but nevertheless he would continue to reveal Zionist crimes in this country.
Kavkaz Center + Agencies
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