19536: White: Aristide tells Maxine Waters that he was KIDNAPPED (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Randall White <raw@haitiaction.org>

Confirming the sketchy reports of yesterday, but were blocked from
reaching Corbett's Haiti list-for spurious reasons-Congresswoman
Maxine Waters talked to President Jean Betrand Aristide. He claims
that he is being kept in a location-called "Palace of
Renaissance"-that he believes is in the Central African Republic.

Contrary to the spin that the "Media Star" is putting on the reports,
President Aristide (yes he is STILL President of Haiti, he did NOT
resign) stated that he was coerced to leave shortly after "Mr.
Marino" of the U.S. Embassy with a contingent of Marines (about ten,
as reported yesterday afternoon), the U.S. forces *seem* to be
working in tandem with the former FRAPH leaders to allow them to
assassinate as many Lavalas leaders as they can before they bring in
reinforcements to "stabilize" the situation.

Since yesterday, and especially overnight, the opposition forces were
assisted in taking over many police stations and there were
assassinations taking place throughout Port-au-Prince. The U.S. needs
to stop the stonewalling and get peacekeeping forces deployed right
away.

The plan is being implemented to pull a coup d'Etat during Academy
Awards and Super Tuesday to drown out the attention of everyone who
are still unaware of the plight of Haiti.

Listen to Democracy Now broadcast of this morning and watch for
updates on breaking story.

http://www.democracynow.org/

Randall Robinson talked to Midred Aristide and confirmed this report.

There will be some updates on the Haiti Action Website as well:

http://www.HaitiAction.net/

RAW