[Peace-discuss] Fwd: DEMOCRACY NOW! EXCLUSIVE: PRESIDENT ARISTIDE SAYS 'I WAS KIDNAPPED' 'TELL THE WORLD IT IS A COUP'

[Alfred Kagan]

>Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 14:59:51 -0500
>Subject: DEMOCRACY NOW! EXCLUSIVE: PRESIDENT ARISTIDE SAYS 'I WAS 
>KIDNAPPED' 'TELL THE WORLD IT IS A COUP'
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>* DEMOCRACY NOW! EXCLUSIVE: PRESIDENT ARISTIDE SAYS 'I WAS 
>KIDNAPPED' 'TELL THE WORLD IT IS A COUP'
>
>Multiple sources that spoke with Haitian President Jean-Bertrand 
>Aristide today 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," 
>Robinson 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.
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