Marines deliver new calm to Haiti

Sac Bee ^ | 3/3/04 | Mark Stevenson - AP

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's key rebel leader promised Wednesday his forces would lay down their arms after 1,000 U.S. Marines began patrolling the impoverished capital to restore order and prepare for the arrival of international peacekeepers.

If Guy Philippe, a rebel boss and former police chief, can make good on his vow, it would mark the end of the rebellion that broke out Feb. 5, drove President Jean-Bertrand Aristide into African exile Sunday and left at least 130 Haitians dead.

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	Hundreds of his loyalists scream their support for former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on the grounds of the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday. AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd

	A woman walks past pro-Aristide grafiti on a Port-au-Prince street on Wednesday. AP Photo/Tom Hanson

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	Haitians look on as a U.S. Marine secures a street near the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday. AP Photo/Tom Hanson

[texasflower]

Are those young women looking at that soldier's behind?

[Delta 21]

Did we get the un's approval before we did this?

[DeuceTraveler]

Looks that way to me. : )