Mbeki's Haiti visit backfires January 03 2004 at 10:11AM By Peter Fabricius Bullets fired at a South African police helicopter and into a sports stadium in Haiti forced President Thabo Mbeki to call off his controversial participation in the key ceremony marking Haiti's independence celebrations. South African police said on Friday that the South African helicopter was fired at on Thursday while it was carrying South African security officials scouting the port city of Gonaives to ensure that it was safe before Mbeki visited it hours later. Mbeki was supposed to join Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a re-enactment ceremony...