Thugs and the Interim Government of Haiti

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In a statement released to the media Monday, a spokesperson for Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, said Nigeria had agreed to give temporary asylum to deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Rep. Maxine Waters, who was instrumental in arranging President Aristide’s release from the Central African Republic and return to the Caribbean, says she was not surprised that Nigeria “consulted” with the U.S. government before agreeing to welcome President Aristide to Nigeria. Nor was she surprised that the U.S. government had “consulted” with CARICOM and Jamaica before the decision was made to move President Aristide out of Jamaica.

“I received a call from President Aristide on Monday, and he said he had been told by the Jamaican government there was a serious security threat that was causing them great concern,” Waters said. “President Aristide said the security threat came from unspecified classified sources indicating his life was in danger, and it would be necessary for him to leave Jamaica.”

Rep. Waters, Rep. John Conyers, Rep. Charles Rangel and TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson arranged a conference call with Prime Minister Patterson and his foreign minister, Mr. K.D. Knight.

“We had a long discussion about what was really happening,” said Waters. “We determined that the United States had put pressure on Jamaica and CARICOM as well as Nigeria to move President Aristide out of the Caribbean. We learned that Nigeria had been pressured by Condoleezza Rice to send a plane to get President Aristide.”


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