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CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (CP) - Rebels on Sunday seized the government's last major stronghold in the north, Cap-Haitien, shooting off celebratory rounds in the air as people looted and torched buildings. The rebels said they had met little resistance except at the airport, where they said eight people were killed in fighting with militants loyal to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A manager with Tropical Airways said rebels there also had commandeered a plane. "We came in today and we took Cap-Haitien, tomorrow we take Port-au-Prince," the capital, boasted Lucien Estime, 19. "Our mission is to liberate Haiti." It took the rebels just...

Rebels Plan to Attack Haitian Capital 16 minutes ago By PAISLEY DODDS, Associated Press Writer CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti - Rebels overran Haiti's second-largest city in their biggest victory of a bloody uprising and said soon they will attack the capital in their campaign to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. As thousands of looters rampaged through Cap-Haitien Sunday, rebel leader Guy Philippe predicted a quick victory over Aristide's partisans, who sought to block any advance by erecting flaming barricades on the highway into the capital, Port-au-Prince, from the north. "I think that in less than 15 days we will control all of Haiti,"...

A team of 50 Marines has departed the United States to beef up security for the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, U.S. Southern Command confirmed today. The Marines are part of the Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team out of Naval Base Norfolk, Va. The team is under the operational control of U.S. Southern Command based in Miami. The team will assist the Marine security detachment at the embassy. In addition, a Southern Command assessment team continues its work in Haiti, Pentagon officials said. U.S. Ambassador to Haiti James B. Foley requested the assessment team last week. Rebel groups opposed to Haitian...

<p>PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Fifty U.S. Marines streamed into the capital of Haiti yesterday to protect the U.S. Embassy and its staff, while government loyalists set flaming barricades to block the road from rebels threatening to move on Port-au-Prince.</p> <p>The United States made last-ditch efforts at finding a political solution. As an opposition coalition was on the brink of rejecting a U.S.-backed peace plan because it did not call for President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to step down, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell phoned opposition politicians and asked them to delay their formal response for 24 hours.</p>

AP Interview: Rebel Leader Says He Doesn't Want Another Dictatorship but Wants to Re-Establish Army Feb. 24, 2004 By Paisley Dodds / Associated Press Writer CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's rebel leader told The Associated Press on Tuesday he did not want to install a military dictatorship but seeks to re-establish the army that was disbanded after ousting President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991. With the rebels threatening to attack the capital of Port-au-Prince, the United States tried to broker a last-ditch peace plan that did not require Aristide to resign. Opposition politicians were weighing the plan, after being persuaded by...

CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti (AP) -- Sitting poolside and fingering assault rifles, rebel leaders bent on ousting Haiti's president said Monday his big mistake was sending them home years earlier with their guns. All three have a vendetta against Jean-Bertrand Aristide. "We don't want any more bloodshed. We just want Aristide to leave," Guy Philippe told The Associated Press in an interview. He used to be the police chief in Cap-Haitien, Haiti's second-largest city of 500,000 that rebels seized with little resistance on Sunday, the biggest prize in their 18-day revolt. "I think Cap-Haitien was fairly easy to take," Philippe said. "No...

CAP-HAITIEN Haiti (AP) - Rebels on Sunday attacked the government's last major stronghold in the north, Cap-Haitien, and witnesses reported heavy gunfire and explosions as the insurgents pushed toward the city center. Smoke billowed from the Cap-Haitien airport, where a manager with Tropical Airways said rebels commandeered a plane. The telephone line was cut before Allen Alexandre could say more. Gunfire swelled near the center and shouting, panicked residents fled from the streets. There were unconfirmed reports that rebels had freed prisoners from a jail in one of four police compounds. Witnesses said rebels had advanced from Cap-Haitien's south,...

CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti - Rebels captured Haiti's second-largest city with little resistance Sunday, claiming Cap-Haitien as their biggest prize in a two-week uprising that has driven government forces from half the country. The fighters fired celebratory rounds as people looted and torched the police station and other buildings. A pall of black smoke hung over the city of 500,000. Flush with victory after the takeover of Cap-Haitien, rebel leader Guy Philippe said he was setting his sights on the capital, Port-au-Prince. "I think that in less than 15 days we will control all of Haiti," Philippe said in an interview...