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Tuesday, March 2, 2004
WORIJ
THE BATTALIA
Haitian rebels occupy
police headquarters
Celebration and conflict mark capital
Victorious rebels rolled into Haiti’s capital
Monday, a day after ousted President Jean-
Bertrand Aristide resigned and went into exile
in Africa. U.S. Marines and French troops,
the first of a multinational force approved
by the U.N. Security Council,
secured key sites.
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diplomatic sites and
were stationed at the
airport.
The U.S. presence
Marines were at the
palace and airport.
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Rebels rolled through Petionville en route to the capital. ')
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Boniface Alexandre
declared he was taking charge of the country. Caribbean
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SOURCE: ESRI
By Paisley Dodds and
Ian James
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —
Rebels occupied the national
police headquarters but kept
away from the U.S.-guarded
presidential palace after their
convoy entered the capital
Monday to the cheers of thou
sands celebrating the ouster of
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Dozens of insurgents packing
an eclectic array of weapons dat
ing to World War II swaggered
around a posh hotel where rebel
leader Guy Philippe met with
members of the political coali
tion that opposed Aristide. He
was joined by rebel commander
Louis-Jodel Chamblain, who is a
former army death squad leader
and a convicted assassin.
With U.S. military forces on
the ground and more on the way,
Aristide claimed they forced him
to leave Haiti and told him they
would “start shooting and
killing” if he refused, according
to a telephone interview with the
exiled president after he was
flown aboard a contracted U.S.-
govemment plane to the impover
ished Central African Republic.
Aristide was put in contact
with The Associated Press by
the Rev. Jesse Jackson on
Monday following a news con
ference in Atlanta, where the
civil rights leader called on
Congress to investigate
Aristide’s ouster.
U.S. officials called the alle
gation — repeated earlier by
other U.S. critics who said they
were called by Aristide —
“nonsense” and “absurd.”
Philippe said he planned to
make preparations for the new
president, former Supreme
Court Chief Justice Boniface
Alexandre, to assume office, as
called for in the constitution.
“We’re just going to make
sure the palace is clean for the
president to come ... that there
is no threat there,” he said as
his convoy of 70 rebels
approached the capital.
But a half dozen U.S.
Marines guarded the National
Palace at the Champs de Mars
plaza, and the rebels did not
approach. Philippe has said that
he has no political aspirations
but wants reinstituted the
Haitian army that ousted
Aristide in 1991 and that
Aristide disbanded in 1995.
In the capital, there were
reports of reprisal killings of mil
itant Aristide supporters accused
of terrorizing people. An AP
reporter saw four bodies at
Carrefour, on the outskirts of the
capital, three of them with hands
tied behind their backs and shot
in the head execution-style.
The fourth body was that of a
man allegedly shot by police,
said witness Charlie LaPlanche.
“He ran out of the (police) pick
up truck and then it became a
manhunt. He went into a house.
They found him. And thenfc
took him out and execit;
him,” he said.
Secretary of State Cot
Powell said U.S. forces "nii
have a lead role 1 ’ initially :
restoring order to Haiti follow,
the three-week rebellion fc: j
swept Aristide from power. Ht
U.N. Security Council k
Sunday approved the deploymei
of a multinational force toHain
Defense Secretary Donald 1:
Rumsfeld estimated thi
between 1,500 and 2,000 U.S
troops would go to Haiti fori j
“relatively short period."The) j i
would participate in an intern: |
force, which could include i* |
many as 5.000 troops fromsev
eral countries, that would staj _
until replaced by a U.N. peace
keeping force.
There were no clashes :
between the rebel force andlk !
U.S. and French troops, rt)
were establishing securityt(
diplomatic missions and ute
sites. Philippe earlier said k |
welcomed the peacekeepers,
Sheriff’s opponents fight ideas
of inside job after jail break n
By Lynn Brezosky
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HARLINGEN, Texas — Federal authorities
decided Monday to transfer inmates out of the
Brownsville jail where three inmates escaped late
Friday, a move expected to result in up to 42 job
losses for jail guards.
It’s the second time in two months that U.S
marshals pulled inmates from a Cameron County
jail. Officials did not immediately say where the
inmates were transferred.
Meanwhile, opponents in the Cameron County
sheriff’s race Monday scoffed at Sheriff Conrado
Cantu's notions that the latest jail break was an
inside job aimed at making him look bad.
“He ought to be focusing on what’s going on
inside the jail instead of what’s going on outside,”
said Abel Perez Jr., a constable who is one of
Cantu’s four challengers in the March 9 primary.
Cantu said the department was investigating all
angles, including that three federal inmates had
help making a noisy roof escape from a downtown
Brownsville jail Friday evening.
“This is real suspicious,” Cantu said Monday.
“The guards are sitting there 15 feet from where
the hole is and they couldn’t hear them bangingi ‘
the roof? ... Somebody had to plant this.”
Maximo Manuel Ravell, 39; Mario Alberto
Hernandez Villarreal, 22; and Francisco Ramire;
Guerrero, 21, were still missing Monday aftfrt
noon following their escape from the RubenM r ‘
Torres Sr. Jail, a decades-old structure less tin J
two miles from the Mexican border.
Ravell and Hernandez-Villarreal were serviot "
time for illegal re-entry into the United Statesa«i rt
Guerrero was jailed for possession of marijua® a
None were considered violent, sheriffs Cap [)
Rumaldo Rodriguez said.
Investigators say the three broke throiigli! 0
bathroom ceiling and roof, including 1-inchIhici J'
cement and wire mesh, with an industrial if ^
handle before fleeing the jail.
Perez, whose precinct includes the jail area
said his deputies found discarded jail unifoi* j
near the building. i
The break was the latest in a list of problem \
for Cantu that include a string of jail escapes
missing inmate funds and allegations of initial!
sexual abuse by prison guards. On Feb. 12,Cal
was indicted on a misdemeanor charge alleginglt
held a mandatory meeting at the jail totalkabl
his re-election campaign.
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