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Zo Zig Donating Member (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-05-04 12:55 AM
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An interview with Ira Kurzban (President Aristide’s lawyer in the US)

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It seems to me that what is important, due to the privileged position that you had, is that we go back to the time before what might now considered a coup with American assistance. And the obvious first question is, Ira, how did this rebellion develop? We even have a column by Jim DeFede in The Miami Herald implying that some M16 rifles that had been sold to the Dominican Republic somehow may have ended up in the hands of these individuals, who also may have come from the Dominican Republic. How did this rebellion really start?

Ira Kurzban (Ira): Let me be clear that this is not a rebellion. This was a coup d’etat. It was a coup d’etat directed by, operated by, and equipped by the United States intelligence services, after the US intelligence services weeded a group of people trained in the Dominican Republic. Some believe that some in this group were Dominicans, because people said that they didn’t speak Creole and they only spoke Spanish.

FA: You are saying some of those original 300 men that were reported by the media may have been Dominicans?
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