Notice here how our "paper of record" in the US lies and tries to muddy the waters of truth in the crucial early hours of this US-sponsored Haiti coup!
Aristide Flees After a Shove From the U.S.
(The Title is a LIE, Aristide was kidnapped by US troops)
(Snip)
He made the decision to give up power on Saturday evening, hours after the White House in a statement questioned his fitness to rule.
(HE MADE NO DECISION HE WAS KIDNAPPED AT gunpoint. BY US TROOPS)
Mr. Aristide, signaling a disconnection from the violence engulfing his country and the appeals from world leaders to step aside, meekly asked the American ambassador in Haiti through an aide whether his resignation would help the country.
("meekly asked" What kind of crap news is this???)
"It was as if he was the last guy in the world to figure out that the country would be better off were he to relinquish power," the official said.
(What "Official"?? Annonymous BULLSHIT)
The final stage of Mr. Aristide's rule opened when the White House reacted strongly to the report of an attack on Friday on a Haitian Coast Guard installation by a pro-Aristide mob. After a firefight at the Killick base, five miles from the main port, the Haitian Coast Guard workers were forced to take to boats and flee the site, the official said. That incident persuaded White House officials that Mr. Aristide and his armed loyalists sought to shut down the process by which refugees were being intercepted by the United States Coast Guard and returned home.
See the rest of this FICTIONAL FRONT PAGE PROPAGANDA at...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/international/americas/01DIPL.html