FLASH!! Haiti: Did the Americans remove Aristide?

Update Monday 03/01/04: It's confirmed that Americans forcibly removed Aristide.

This article is from Al Giordano of Narco News and Big, Left, Outside:

AFP: Aristide Didn't Resign... By Al Giordano, Posted on Sun Feb 29th, 2004 at 04:23:28 PM EST According to Agence France Press: A man who said he was a caretaker for the now exiled president told France's RTL radio station the troops forced Aristide out. "The American army came to take him away at two in the morning," the man said. "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..." First newspaper to run with this is in Australia. Now, his own foreign minister was on CNN earlier today confirming the resignation. But, come to think of it, we haven't seen any resignation letter, we haven't seen or heard audio or video from Aristide since he supposedly "resigned" and... ...that's exactly what happened two years ago in the first hours of the Venezuela coup. The press said the president had resigned, when he had been kidnapped. (Thanks to Dennis Bernstien of KPFA Flashpoints Radio in San Francisco for alerting us to this report.) Developing...

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And not only that, but when pro-Chavez forces found out where he was being held, the report was that they had to hurry to collect him as there was an American-licensed plane on its way to get him.

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