U.S. allegedly blocked extra bodyguards (for Aristide)

[Mika]

U.S. allegedly blocked extra bodyguards
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/haiti/8074989.htm

The Bush administration blocked a last-minute attempt by Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to bolster his bodyguards -- mostly former U.S. Special Forces members -- fearing he wanted them to organize and lead a counterattack against the rebels who threatened his presidency, knowledgeable sources said Sunday.

U.S. officials also forced a small group of extra bodyguards from the San Francisco-based Steele Foundation to delay their flight from the United States to Haiti from Sunday to today -- too late to help Aristide, said the sources, who are close to Aristide.

With friends like the US..

[bemildred]

1. One of the "rebels" was quoted in a thread yesterday

saying they had an "in" in the palace. I figured it had to
be the Steele bodyguards. I must say Aristide seems a bit
dumb about these things, unless perhaps he simply had no other
choice.

[htuttle]

2. I heard this on Democracy Now yesterday

They probably wanted to make sure that when the US marines came to take Aristide away, they didn't get shot at by Aristide's bodyguards.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

3. But he had been ruling under protection of US-sanctioned security.

And that security was withdrawn and denied when it came time to replace him. Simple.

The Steele Foundation listens to the US Gov't because it is a department of it.