Aristide isolated, Haitian capital in turmoil

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1504&ncid=1504&e=1&u=/afp/20040227/ts_afp/haiti_040227181600

<Snip>PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) - Rebel forces virtually isolated President Jean Bertrand Aristide in the Haitian capital where looting and killings were reported as international pressure mounted on the beleaguered leader to quit.

Armed fighters who have vowed to oust Aristide took over Mirebalais, less than 60 kilometers (35 miles) from Port-au-Prince. They took Cayes, the country's third largest city, on Thursday night.

In the capital, Aristide loyalists put up barricades around the presidential palace as hundreds of people looted warehouses at the port and the bodies of at least three men -- all shot in the head execution-style -- lay on one street.

Witnesses said the bodies of other revenge killings were seen in the streets, but the death toll was unclear.

[sadiesworld]

1. Another jewel in *'s foreign policy accomplishment crown.

[yellowcanine]

2. Once again shrub has started something that he won't know how to finish

Shrub signed off on a policy of isolating and undermining Aristide - now it is going to blow up and the local population will be left with the deadly consequences. This is criminal incompetence on the part of the Bush administration.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. When W was asked what his reaction was

to the sitution in Haiti:




He said, 'Golly, where the heck is Haiti?"

[yellowcanine]

4. Haiti? - Do they have oil there? Are they part of the Coalition of

the Willing? They speak French? And what is it I should be concerned about?