U.S. Arranging 'Elders Council' to Run Haiti

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States scrambled on Monday to create an interim "council of elders" that would run Haiti, organize early elections and disarm rebels after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide quit under U.S. pressure in the face of a deadly revolt, a U.S. official said.

"There's going to be a tripartite commission, made up of the opposition, the government and the international community, who will form a sort of 'council of elders,"' said a State Department official, who asked not to be named.

Washington was focusing on having Chief Justice Boniface Alexandre, who replaced Aristide after he flew into exile, work with Haiti's Prime Minister Yvon Neptune and "probably" a representative from the Caribbean nations bloc, CARICOM, to form the council of "a dozen eminent Haitians," he added.

Washington, which sent Marines into the country hours after flying Aristide to the Central African Republic, also wanted "to take (the rebels) out of the equation" by regrouping the police force that was overrun in half of Haiti, the official said.

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=4469875

[Aidoneus]

1. just another piece on their chessboard to move around..

:argh:

[PsychoDad]

2. Who needs Democracy

When you can have a puppet oligarcy

[alittlelark]

3. Counsel of Elders...... connotations of primitive cultures

dripping out of that terminology. I wonder how many of these 'elders' attended US training?

[bobthedrummer]

4. Then there is the voodoo culture, Republicans get into that-

they've given US "voodoo economics", which, really, has always been around, alright.

And of the 12 for a Council of Elders-yes, I wonder how many are US trained and bought. But this whole thing is disinformation right now.

[MetaTrope]

5. How convenient

The U.S.-supplied weapons can be shipped straight from there to Bermuda for the next coup.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. A coup in Bermuda?

Why do you say that?

[MetaTrope]

7. Bermuda renews drive to gain its independence

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/8074353.htm

[burrowowl]

8. Bermuda wants independence

from Britain.