EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS: PRESIDENT ARISTIDE SAYS 'I WAS KIDNAPPED'

Democracynow.com ^ | 3/1/04

[anniegetyourgun]

EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS: PRESIDENT ARISTIDE SAYS 'I WAS KIDNAPPED' 'TELL THE WORLD IT IS A COUP'

Multiple sources that just spoke with Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide told Democracy Now! that Aristide says he was "kidnapped" and taken by force to the Central African Republic. Congressmember Maxine Waters said she received a call from Aristide at 9am EST. "He's surrounded by military. It's like he is in jail, he said. He says he was kidnapped," said Waters. She said he had been threatened by what he called US diplomats. According to Waters, the diplomats reportedly told the Haitian president that if he did not leave Haiti, paramilitary leader Guy Philippe would storm the palace and Aristide would be killed. According to Waters, Aristide was told by the US that they were withdrawing Aristide's US security.

TransAfrica founder and close Aristide family friend Randall Robinson also received a call from the Haitian president early this morning and confirmed Waters account. Robinson said that Aristide "emphatically" denied that he had resigned. "He did not resign," he said. "He was abducted by the United States in the commission of a coup." Robinson says he spoke to Aristide on a cell phone that was smuggled to the Haitian president.

[ALASKA]

SO?

[marktuoni]

I smell a rat...and her name is Maxine!

[conservativecorner]

ROFLMAO!! Ya, and he also has lots of used tires for sale now that he can't hang them around opponents necks any longer.

[chance33_98]

I read about this last night somewhere (over the rainbow, or is it, over the gay rainbow now? Who knows. At any rate...) no matter which way it went down the left will find a problem with it somewhere, somehow. They don't care about Haiti, they care about hating Bush. So much so that they have lost all sense of reason (if they had any to begin with).

[Pikamax]

Aristide had a US security force??

[cyborg]

:yawn: democracynow... that steaming pile is anything but!

[TheRightGuy]

Congressmember Maxine Waters said she received a call from Aristide at 9am EST.

If I were a third world dictator on the run, that's the first person I'd call ... Maxine Waters, sho 'nuff!

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[dts32041]

He could have ended up like the Diem brothers?

When you have your health you have everything.

[Lion in Winter]

LOL!! I think this is funny. He is little bug-eyed clinton-lovin' twit.

[kinghorse]

Lucky he was kidnapped. He would have been drawn and quartered if captured.

[mewzilla]

Since she's so tight with Arisitide, maybe Maxine can explain where all the millions in US aid we sent down there went?

[TnMomofTwo]

After watching Charlie Rangel's interview with Georgie Steponit yesterday....this comes as no suprise whatsoever.

[Sub-Driver]

so HOW is it he has their phone #'s?

[devane617]

Well, Well, Well. It was a coup. Ladys and gentlemen the fun of this story has just begun.

[OXENinFLA]

And I just heard the are PARADES in the Haitian streets.

[marktuoni]

No doubt this is somehow going to be all over the news over the next week..."How do you respond to these(ridiculous) charges Mr. President that your Democrat rivals have presented?"

[aynrandfreak]

Oh no, this may cost Bush 90%+ of the African-American vote.

[Cyber Liberty]

No problemo. Send him back and let him take his chances with his angry population.

[cyborg]

So did I... and returning looted furniture to the police because Dubya sent the Americans and didn't forget them. I saw Aristide on tv and he didn't too upset to me!