For now, the third and last post from me on the story of the coup.
David
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> From: <nyt at blythe.org>
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> Date: 3/1/2004 10:14:06 AM
> Subject: Aristide Confirms He Was Kidnapped
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> 1 March, 2004 - 10:00 a.m. EST
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> PRESIDENT ARISTIDE CONFIRMS HE WAS KIDBNAPPED BY US MILITARY
>
> Democracy Now! has just done another broadcast on the Haiti coup,
> in which both Rep. Maxine Waters and Randall Robinson said that
> Aristide has confirmed to them that he was kidnapped by the US
> military on Sunday morning. According to Robinson, Aristide says
> that he was taken by force by US military, given no opportunity to
> contact anyone, and was forced onto a plane. They were not told
> where they were going, they landed on Antigua first, then flew
> for another 6 hours and landed somewhere else where they stayed
> for 3 hours. When Aristide asked where they were, the US soldiers
> refused to tell him and would now allow him to raise the shades
> on the airplane to look outside. They then took off again, and
> landed in their current location, which they were told was in
> the Central African Republic. They are "being held" in a place
> called the "Palace of Renaissance" there.
>
> For more information and details on today's broadcast, see
> Democracy Now's website at http://www.democracynow.org -- they
> have not updated the site yet.
>
> When, we wonder, will the mainstream press start to eat their
> words? What will the Bush administration do now? Claim they
> were "just trying to protect Aristide?" What WERE they
> thinking? Did they fear making Aristide a martyr by manipulating
> some Haitian into assassinating him, a la Maurice Bishop? Did they
> think that somehow they could keep this a secret, and that Aristide
> could just be disappeared and made to look like a cowardly traitor,
> running away after swearing he never would?
>
> Hugo Chavez is right -- Bush is an asshole. He can't even do an
> old-style 1950s rightwing coup properly.
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