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More on the SF-based paramilitary firm that 'protected' Aristide The San Francisco-based Steele Foundation ran Haiti's Presidential Protection Unit, staffing it with former apartheid soldiers and special forces. Now, the firm is militarizing the corporate invasion of Iraq. Its recent CEO, Richard Wilmot worked for US Army Intelligence and helped further the Afghan jihad....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 11:10am PST
Urgent Action Needed. Haitians in Haiti are being slaughtered. Our Black people in Port-au-Prince Haiti are being slaughtered. The duly
elected President kidnapped by U.S. Marines and flown out of the country at
gunpoint and is being held hostage in the Central African Republic under U.S and
French guard....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 10:09am PST
Now That US Is In Control, "Baby Doc" Duvalier Wants to Return to Haiti MIAMI (Reuters) - Deposed Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier wants to return as soon as possible to his homeland, where Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned as president after armed rebels took over much of the country....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 8:34am PST
Haiti: U.S. Return of Asylum Seekers Is Illegal (New York, March 2, 2004) — The U.S. government’s return of hundreds of fleeing Haitians to the capital Port-au-Prince violates their right not to be sent back to a place where their lives or freedom are endangered, Human Rights Watch said today....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 8:10am PST
I was kidnapped - Aristide Asked whether his departure was in the best interests of Haiti, Aristide said: "Of course not, because no one should force an elected president to move to avoid bloodshed."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 8:08am PST
UN Officials Back US Kidnapping Of Elected Leader! The United Nations has said it was "very clear" that former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide had resigned and had not been forced into exile by a coup d'etat....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 8:05am PST
Ramsey Clark's Statement on Haiti Ramsey Clark eloquently summarizes the background and implications of the U.S. coup in Haiti better than anybody else. His statement is clear, concise and compelling - and I encourage people to forward it to everybody they know to combat the corporate media disinformation campaign....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 12:35am PST
In phone call arranged by Jesse Jackson, Aristide says he was forced to flee ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) - Jean-Bertrand Aristide claims he was forced to leave Haiti by U.S. military forces, according to a telephone interview with the exiled Haitian president Monday.
Aristide was put in contact with The Associated Press by Rev. Jesse Jackson following a news conference, where the civil rights leader called on Congress to investigate Aristide's ouster. When asked if he left Haiti on his own, Aristide quickly answered: "No. I was forced to leave...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 6:54pm PST
CNN: Aristide says U.S. deposed him in 'coup d'etat' (CNN) -- Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said Monday he was forced to leave Haiti in a "coup d'etat" by the United States....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 6:42pm PST
Aristide accuses America of coup Haiti's exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has accused the US of forcing him out of office in a "coup d'etat"....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 6:37pm PST
TransAfrica calls for investigation and return of Aristide TransAfrica Forum Urges Congressional Investigation into Aristide’s Ouster
amid Claims that the U.S. Forced the Haitian President to Leave...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 5:40pm PST
Report from Haiti: School Threatened by Opposition Thugs Haitian activists call for "urgent action": Haitians in Haiti are being slaughtered....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 4:30pm PST
Aristide: 'Marines forced me to leave' In the end, Jean-Bertrand Aristide left Haiti the same way he came in 10 years ago: at the pleasure of the United States, under escort from the Marines, with the streets of Port-au-Prince at the mercy of former army officers and paramilitary death squad commanders....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 3:43pm PST
Administration Denies Aristide Kidnapped - "nonsense, and conspiracy theories" That's right folks, Aristide himself is now speaking nonsense to US senators. Plus, he's now conspiring against the US! He's a threat to the US! Trying to expose the outrageous US lies means he's threatening to the prosperty (as McClellan points out below) of both Haitians and Americans! How dare he!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 12:51pm PST
Aristide Tells U.S. Contacts He Was Abducted WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, ousted as Haitian president on Sunday, told U.S. lawmakers and other contacts by telephone on Monday that he was abducted by U.S. soldiers and left his homeland against his will....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 11:50am PST
Haiti as Target Practice: How the US Press Missed the Story "The fact that the group in charge of Haiti policy today in the State Department has been literally gunning for Aristide since before his initial election as a champion of democracy in 1990 has been left all but unmentioned by the US press."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 10:29am PST
"I Was Kidnaped"--Aristide "I was kidnaped by U.S. Marines and forced to leave Haiti," Jean-Bertrand Aristide told Congresswoman Maxine Waters in a phone call Monday morning from the Central African Republic. "I did not resign." Photo: President Aristide lofting flag during bicentennial celebration....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 10:24am PST
The overthrow of Haiti’s Aristide: a coup made in the USA The violent overthrow and forced exile of Haiti’s President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has ripped aside the democratic pretensions of Washington and the other major powers to expose the brutal and predatory character of resurgent imperialism. The actions taken by the US government in Haiti demonstrate the farcical character of its claims that the aim of the US invasion of Iraq was to inaugurate an era of democratization and freedom in the Middle East and around the world....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 7:01am PST
How The US Forced Aristide Out BANGUI, Central African Republic - Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide took refuge in the Central African Republic early Monday, fleeing Haiti and rebels there under an asylum offer negotiated by France and the United States....
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 6:59am PST
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