Rebels Take Key Town, Close in on Haiti Capital

Reuters ^ | Jim Loney and Alistair Scrutton , Laurent Hamida, Amy Bracken and Joseph Delva

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Whatdaya think? This weekend? Alamo Girl, do you have any archived info on any of the FRAPH administration from your Clinton regime era research?

[kcvl]

Haitians Aren’t Amused By the Clinton-Aristide Lovefest


http://www.wehaitians.com/clinton%20aristide.html



Haitian Connections
HOW CLINTON’S CRONIES CASHED IN ON FOREIGN POLICY.



http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:l4SovcEqew0J:www.haiti-info.com/imprimer.php3%3Fid_article%3D12+clinton,+aristide,+long+distance&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[archy]

Map time, people.

CIA maps of Port-au-Prince *here*.

[backhoe]

Cross-link:

-Haiti, descending into chaos again--

[archy]

Haitians Aren’t Amused By the Clinton-Aristide Lovefest

I'm sure Bill will grab his rifle and run down to back Aristide up just as soon as he can. Of course, Aristide may well not care to trust Clinton around him with a loaded weapon.

[archy]

Cross-link:

Thank you, sir!

[backhoe]

Backgrounder? Fast hotbot boolean grab of out top 10:

1. An Explosion in Drug Trafficking through Haiti- 'Clinton's Haiti...
Topic: White Water An Explosion in Drug Trafficking through Haiti- 'Clinton's Haiti Nightmare' The Washington Weekly 7/13/98 MARVIN LEE An Explosion in Drug Trafficking Through Haiti Clinton's ...
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a393284.htm - February 3, 2004 - 18 KB

2. Haiti's Aristide Says 'Show Me the Money' [Free Republic]
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www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b4543126564.htm - January 22, 2004 - 104 KB

3. Nunn Hammers Clinton Forgien Policy
Can anyone think of a single case where aerial bombardment has caused a people to rise up and overthrow their leader? From: Clinton's a rapist (emailname) * 04/12/99 12:20:48 PDT From: Lonnie ... ......
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a371245d8326f.htm - January 18, 2004 - 29 KB

4. Haiti - Another Clinton Flop [Free Republic]
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www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a2c7b3846c3.htm - January 3, 2004 - 22 KB

5. Elian ~ Greg Craig - secret diplomacy under in the guise of private...
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www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38f3f2504409.htm - July 26, 2002 - 37 KB

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Topic: White Water Acting on own, Haiti leader picks government (The Failure of Clinton's 'Restoring Democracy' in Haiti) com: 80/ americas/ digdocs/ 044699. Published Friday, March 26, 1999, in ...
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3700eb126a63.htm - September 25, 2002 - 6 KB

7. Voodoo and Clinton's Fate
Voodoo and Clinton's Fate 12/14/98 Joel A. Ruth Voodoo and Clinton's fate Haitian sorcerers claim credit for his victories and defeats Editor's note: The information in this report is based on ... ... promises to hold fair national elections in return for. Clinton's help in regaining control of Haiti. ...
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3748d0d42bb6.htm - September 20, 2002 - 43 KB

8. Kosovo Rebels, Serb Forces Defy Nato With Fresh Fighting.
... Even Clinton's Haiti "triumph"--so gushed over by so very MANY Beltway journalists--has returned to its old status. ...
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a36d6d0b950ef.htm - September 20, 2002 - 12 KB

9. SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON HAITI
... Aristide would still be president of Haiti today if the Clinton Administration had not pressured him strongly in 1995 to ...
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3700e5535b57.htm - January 25, 2004 - 24 KB

10. Daily Index 07/12/1998
... An Explosion in Drug Trafficking through Haiti- 'Clinton's Haiti Nightmare'. Larry Klayman Featured on CBS Sunday ...
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a394827.htm - February 3, 2004 - 34 KB

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Backgrounder? Fast hotbot boolean grab of out top 10:

Perhaps more to the point: the diplomatic situation between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and any indication that the DomRep might be the first to recognize a NRLF provisional government following a Aristide abdication. You aware of any recent articles that might offer clues? It sure is convenient that there's a DomRep Kiowa helicopter that can fly Aristide out before things get too rough... but if the NRLF is serious about being in place by Sunday, that means Aristide would have to fly out tonight or Saturday night at the latest.

Fri Feb 27, 6:47 PM ET Foreign nationals are rushed to a Dominican armed forces helicopter, as they are evacuated from the Dominican Embassy in Port-au-Prince, February 27, 2004. Rebels took over a key crossroads town and edged closer to the capital while supporters of embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide mounted defenses Friday against a bloody rebellion that threatened to topple Haiti's government. Foreigners and Haitians have been fleeing the country for days.

REUTERS/Andrew Winning

Members of the U.S. special forces sit in the back of a truck, form part of a convoy which delivered people to the Dominican Embassy for evacuation from Port-au-Prince, February 27, 2004. Rebels took over a key crossroads town and edged closer to the capital while supporters of embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide mounted defenses Friday against a bloody rebellion that threatened to topple Haiti's government. Foreigners and Haitians have been fleeing the country for days.

REUTERS/Andrew Winning

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Rebel leader Guy Philippe, a former police chief accused of plotting coups who returned from exile in the Dominican Republic to join the 3-week-old revolt, said his men planned to cut off Port-au-Prince from the ocean.

"We going to send some boats ... to block the ships coming from Miami to Port-au-Prince," Philippe told reporters on Friday in the country's second-biggest city, Cap Haitien, which the rebels overran last weekend to control a large swath of the north.

Philippe has said his men had surrounded Port-au-Prince and were awaiting orders to attack.

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Philippe's taking on the US Marines, and perhaps the Navy...and telling Reuters his plans?  Funny....Scarlet Pimpernel strategy, pretending to be unwise so the enemy lets his guard down?

This is a mess. I am withholding comment. Was here in 2002 when a few Dems. cruelly helped bring a boatload of Haitian refugees to the e. coast of Florida to disrupt the election, with rent-a-racebaitors ready in advance. Ugly and cruel mischief by very sore losers, with a history of exploiting the weakest, here and abroad, it seems...with little cause or purpose, or concern for the people of Haiti ~ just the pursuit of power for power's sake.

According to your link (thank you for that) we sent over 10,000 troops to prevent the Communist bad guys from winning in the Dominican Republic, 1965. We have 50 Marines saving civilians and defending the embassy in Haiti today. America was different then. The military, not so much different today. They will go, and in larger numbers...to help the suffering Haitians. 

I hate it...and will pray extra.

(A-G will be back in  a few days.)

[MindBender26]

Aww-chee!

Who are these rebels? Aristide was far-leftist installed by Clinton, but who are the new kids on the block?

[festus]

Hati has a capital ?

How could you tell.

It always seems to be generally mass anarchy from one end to the other leading me to wonder how you could to the rebels from the rest of the populace.

[archy]

Who are these rebels? Aristide was far-leftist installed by Clinton, but who are the new kids on the block?

Guy Phillippe formerly headed the Cap-Haitien police force, but was discharged by Aristide and left for the Dominican Republic where he resided for the last several years, following Aristide purges of the police and Army after attempts against Aristide's life, one using a .50 Browning machinegun. Phillippe presumably has a few friends in high enough places in the DomRep to have both ensured his safety, and possibly to have at least partially equipped some of the rebel force. That suggests that diplomatic recognition of the NRLF provisional government may also have been prearranged, as it appears also to have been with one central American country.

More on Guy Philippe *here* and in the FReeppost *here.*

[wardaddy]

Man, those guys coulda picked a better spot for a nap.

Seems just like the Haiti I knew and loved.

One must always have the rotting corpse in the same frame with kids.

They weren't necklaced....small favors.

[archy]

It always seems to be generally mass anarchy from one end to the other leading me to wonder how you could to the rebels from the rest of the populace.

The same can be said for the District of Columbia, if only substitute the word *criminals* for *rebels*.

And then you have to come up with a means of differentiating the common armed robbers, drug addicts and burglary-inclined thugs from the political criminals and hucksters.

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Philippe's taking on the US Marines, and perhaps the Navy...and telling Reuters his plans? Funny....Scarlet Pimpernel strategy, pretending to be unwise so the enemy lets his guard down?

Oh, I don't think he intends to engage the Marines in armed conflict; he's neither so inclined nor so foolish, and he's U.S. trained. Think more along the lines of a Mahatma Ghandi-style passive demonstration, with the telvision cameras of the world watching on, nine months before a U.S. election. Mr Philippe planned his moves very well, and timed them like a tournament chessplayer.

This is a mess. I am withholding comment.

Before commenting, kindly read *this and *this.*

Was here in 2002 when a few Dems. cruelly helped bring a boatload of Haitian refugees to the e. coast of Florida to disrupt the election, with rent-a-racebaitors ready in advance. Ugly and cruel mischief by very sore losers, with a history of exploiting the weakest, here and abroad, it seems...with little cause or purpose, or concern for the people of Haiti ~ just the pursuit of power for power's sake.

So, let us see if the pendulum can now swing the other way. And let's consider various ways in which the cooperative efforts of President Bush and a new President Philippe might benefit not only the Haitian people, but those of both countries.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

And let's consider various ways in which the cooperative efforts of President Bush and a new President Philippe might benefit not only the Haitian people, but those of both countries.

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Thank you, archy.

Directing others to your posts and comments re. Haiti.

Link w/ (revealing) headline:

 

8 A family man and a fan of Bush [Guy Philippe; Haiti Rebel leader] ~ The Guardian [Unlimited; online edition] | 2/27/04 | Sibylla Brodzinsky

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And let's consider various ways in which the cooperative efforts of President Bush and a new President Philippe might benefit not only the Haitian people, but those of both countries.
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Thank you, archy.

Directing others to your posts and comments re. Haiti.

There is no guarantee that Guy Philippe will ascend to head of state in Haiti, nor that he will be a beneficial or benign executive if he does; and there is no guarantee that he will survive this weekend, either.

But it's difficult to imagine how he might be more damaging to his nation and people than Aristide has been, and if the opportunity does come his way, I hope he'll make the best of it.

And I've pitched an interesting idea for an interview and report with Philippe to an editor pal. We'll see what he thinks of my clever interview idea, and maybe I can come up with an interesting question or two myself.

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[Ragtime Cowgirl]

No guarantees ~ still, a different, more informed perspective than we're getting from much of the press, I think...and with some hope.

Hope your editor friend listens. (^:

FoxNews.com this morning:

 

    Anarchy in Haiti's Capital

AP/Los Angeles Times/Carolyn Cole

Pro- government supporters gather in a show of force in the capital.

Rebels move within 25 miles of Port-Au-Prince, attack hospital;

2,200 U.S. Marines put on alert

 

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[LibKill]

Another piece of the KKKlintoon legacy falls to nothing. In the end all he will have is his LIEbrary.