March 01, 2004

What if the USA launched a coup and nobody noticed?

There has been precious little evidence to connect the CIA with the anti-government uprising in Haiti. The US has been very dismissive of popularly-elected President Aristide and made it clear from the start that they thought he should leave quietly, but Aristide was widely unpopular and the US stance was not considered unusual.

Commentators assumed the US neo-cons had their hands full with Afghanistan and Iraq. But now comes this:

"A man who said he was a caretaker at the home of Jean Bertrand Aristide told French radio that the ousted Haitian leader had been taken away by US soldiers.

'The American army came to take him away at two in the morning,' the man told RTL radio. '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 man said."

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