Even more reports on it:
Aristide Flees After a Shove From the U.S.
By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
Published: March 1, 2004
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29 — Jean-Bertrand Aristide's hold on the presidency of Haiti shattered Saturday night when he made a last-minute plea to the American ambassador that set off late-night phone calls to Washington, officials said on Sunday. By dawn, he was on a plane departing for his second exile, with no final destination in mind, they said.
Shortly after dawn, an American 757 dispatched by the Pentagon carried Mr. Aristide, his wife and a small security detail on their way to the Central African Republic
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/international/americas/01DIPL.html?hp {{{The way I see it is the US got the rebels to hold off 1-2 days on their coup because they said they would personally remove him}}}
Haiti President Forced Out; Marines Sent to Keep Order
By LYDIA POLGREEN and TIM WEINER
Published: March 1, 2004
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 29 — Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned Sunday as Haiti's president, and a short while later President Bush ordered the deployment of the Marines as part of an "interim international force" to restore order.
Mr. Aristide, the slum priest who became his country's first elected president, acted under intense pressure from the United States and the threat of an invasion of the capital by armed insurgents. He fled the country by jet at dawn under heavy American guard, and a United States official said he was bound for the Central African Republic.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/international/americas/01HAIT.html