CNN Breaking - Haitian rebels in control of Cap-Haitien Airport...

[Cooley Hurd]

BBC Link: Haitian rebels have attacked the airport in the northern port city of Cap Haitien, it is reported... This only mentions the attack on the airport, not the capture of it.

[kalian]

1. I expect to see a US airborne drop soon....

the US won't let this get away from them...

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. BBC link half an hour old

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/americas/3511829.stm

"Haitian rebels have attacked the airport in the northern port city of Cap Haitien, it is reported.
Witnesses said clouds of smoke could be seen rising from the airport. One report said rebels seized an aircraft."

[undergroundrailroad]

3. CNN.com Breaking News

CNN.COM BREAKING NEWS. Revels launch attack on Cap Haitien, Haiti's second-largest city, a witness tells CNN. Details soon.

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[Cooley Hurd]

4. New information from CNN...

New info from CNN: Rebels control the entire city of Cap-Haitien now. This is going downhill FAST!

[JCMach1]

5. I wonder which side * will decide to play

as if he cares...

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Which ever side joins the "Coalition of the Willing" first...

I mean, it's not too late to squeeze a little more juice out of that political maneuver, is it?

[boobooday]

7. Now what

Bush has spread our troops so thin -- this problem has been brewing for a while.

But hey, they're poor, third world people, and they have no oil, so who gives a crap about their suffering? Doesn't interest Rummy & Co., the great murdering humanitarians.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Scairp]

8. Maybe Shrub can send in the Miami-Dade cops

They have proven to be good at putting down an uprising...if you count unarmed and peaceful protesters, that is.

[MaineDem]

9. Has anyone else ever been to Cap-Haitien?

We stopped there on a cruise back in the late 70s. The most dreadfully poor place I have ever seen. Women were washing clothes/dishes/children in the sewer water which ran through the streets. It makes me cringe just thinking about it.

Stunningly beautiful country though.

At the time, we were forced to sit through an anti-Communist lecture conducted (no kidding) at gun-point. We couldn't get back to the ship fast enough.

I understand the French are willing to send in troops. I can't imagine we will but who knows.

A friend of mine is scheduled to go there in March as part of some religious group. I sure hope they cancel the trip.

[leftchick]

10. Update: Battles Rage in Haiti's Second City

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=4&u=/nm/20040222/ts_nm/haiti_dc

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Columns of balaclava-wearing rebels attacked Haiti's second-largest city Cap Haitien on Sunday and drove police from their headquarters in a bloody rebellion against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Heavy gunfire rattled throughout the city as a rebel force of about 200 scattered poorly trained and outnumbered police before them and people ran for cover. Flights from the capital were suspended.

Residents of the city, the last major pro-government bastion in the north to hold out against the two-week revolt, said trucks with rebels in military fatigues raced through the streets, and unconfirmed reports said the city had been overrun and the airport taken.

Armed supporters of Aristide, who have attacked rebel sympathizers over the past two weeks in panic at rumors of impending attack, commandeered a plane at the Cap-Haitien airport, radio stations said.

"There's shooting all around in the streets and there are rumors the airport has been taken," a spokesman for the World Food Program said after the U.N. agency contacted its Cap-Haitien office.