19481: Ives: Aristide kidnapped, just like Chavez (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: K. M. Ives <kives@toast.net>

I have reported this in several interviews made during the day. According to
a source inside Tabarre, an American delegation arrived at Aristide's
Tabarre hope yesterday evening around 7 p.m. They tried to convince him
throughout the night to resign. He wouldn't. Finally, in the early morning
hours, the Americans took him from Tabarre to put him on a plane. A U.S.
Marine "helped in on to the plane" according to the BBC. We still don't know
where he has been taken. Here is an account from the Australian, based on a
French radio report, which corroborates that of my source.

Kim Ives

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,8833298%5E1702,00.html

US troops 'made Aristide leave'
>From correspondents in Paris
01mar04

HAITIAN leader Jean Bertrand Aristide was taken away from his home by US
soldiers, it was claimed today.

A man who said he was a caretaker for the now exiled president told France's
RTL radio station the troops forced Aristide out.
"The American army came to take him away at two in the morning," the man
said.
"The Americans forced him out with weapons.
"It was American soldiers. They came with a helicopter and they took the
security guards.
"(Aristide) was not happy. He did not want to be taken away. He did not want
to leave. He was not able to fight against the Americans."
The RTL journalist who carried out the interview described the man as a
"frightened old man, crouched in a corner" who said he was the "caretaker of
the residence".
Aristide fled Haiti today in the face of an armed revolt. The United States
has ordered Marines to the Caribbean state to help restore order.