19515: erzilidanto: Major U.S.Media Cover-Up of the Kidnapping of President Aristide of Haiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Erzilidanto@aol.com

Press Release

Friends of Haiti
456 Nostrand Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11216
Phone (718) 398-1766


Press Release:


Friends of Haiti:

Sunday, February 29, 2004

New York, New York



For Immediate Release:


Why has the Media Failed to Expose The Illegal Arrest of President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide by US Ambassador Foley and US Marines?


It has been reported on New York City Radio Station WBAI's Program "Democracy
Now", and from several independent sources (including an ABC cameraman, who
declined to name himself out of fear, and a guard whose was present at the
Presidential Palace) that at approximately 5:30 AM Sunday Morning, US
Ambassador
James B. Foley accompanied with a contingent of US Marines entered the
Haitian
Presidential Palace and left with President Aristide in hand cuffs. To date,
President Aristide has not been seen.


This unfolding news raises serious questions regarding the major story coming
out of Haiti that President Aristide resigned.


The Friends of Haiti questions why this kidnapping of a duly elected
President has gone un-reported in the media. The Friends of Haiti challenges
the US
media in particular and the Western press in general to account for their
lock
step acceptance of the "official" US State Department's reporting of events
in
Haiti, which now clearly appears to be covering up a gross violation of the
United States Constitution.


It should be remembered that what ever questions that have been raised about
isolated election irregularities in Haiti's 2000 Presidential Elections, it
was the stated position of the United States Government in July of 2003, as
represented by then Ambassador Brian Dean Curran "The United States accepts
President Aristide as the constitutional president of Haiti for his term of
office
ending in 2006."


It would now seem that the Bush Administration decided at some point to
violate international law in the interest of known anti-democratic criminals
and
murders who have a long history of bloodshed against the Haitian People.

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