Haiti's government fires hundreds who worked for Aristide; Chileans deploy

[seemslikeadream]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Attackers set ablaze two police stations hours before Chilean troops began patrolling the strategically located city of Hinche, in the first deployment of the U.S.-led multinational force in Haiti's rebel-held Central Plateau, military sources said.

U.S. marines said they arrested five heavily armed men in fatigues in Port-au-Prince on Monday, and a rebel leader said they were on they way to the site of the attacks. In other incidents, French troops in northern Gonaives seized two government vehicles from rebels and a street gang in Petit-Goave made a symbolic surrender of a half dozen weapons to police in the first disarmament exercise in the south, where U.S. marines began deploying in Haiti's third city of Les Cayes at the weekend.

The events in the past three days mark the expansion of the presence of the U.S.-led multinational force in Haiti and indicate the possible resistance that could confront the 3,600 troops from four countries as they move into areas controlled for nearly two months by former Haitian army soldiers and street gangs.

Despite the intervention, hundreds of Haitians are risking their lives at sea in search of a better livings abroad.

The U.S. Coast Guard is to repatriate 686 boat people intercepted on three boats Friday, Sunday and Tuesday, the U.S. Embassy said Monday.

http://canadaeast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040427/CPW/13265022

[dedhed]

1. Let's Baath-ify them...

The U.S.-backed interim government announced Monday it was firing or transferring nearly 800 people who used to work for Aristide in the presidential palace.

Only 125 of 620 security officers at the palace would be retained, and another 272 administrative employees would be fired, cabinet director Michel Brunache said Monday.

Think they'll be re-hired about a year from now?

[maddezmom]

4. "errors have been made"...can you all come back to work

:(

[yellowcanine]

2. Another piece of broken pottery that we now own.

Bush is an incompetent little shit.

[seemslikeadream]

3. EVERY DEATH CREATES NEW ENEMIES

MORE TERRORISTS
MORE DANGER
MORE DEATH
AND REMEMBER....
HE IS JUST GETTING STARTED

http://www.bushflash.com/pax.html

[Tinoire]

5. God. What a nightmare. n/t