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Re : : Haiti : Death Squad Leader Goes on Trial |
Prensa Latina, Havana - August 17, 2004
http://www.plenglish.com
Haitian Insurgent Leader Appears for Trial on Murder Charges
Port-au-Prince, Aug 17 (Prensa Latina) Haiti's Jury selection has
begun the murder trial of Louis-Jodel Chamblain, a paramilitary leader
who led a revolt against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February.
Chamblain has been charged with killing a businessman and ordering a
massacre, the Jamaica Observer reported Tuesday.
He was a co-leader of the paramilitary Front for the Advancement and
Progress of the Haitian People, a group that was blamed for the killings
of some 3,000 people from 1991 to 1994, during the regime that followed
Aristide's first ouster in 1991.
The insurgent commander fled to the neighboring Dominican Republic when
US troops came to Haiti in 1994 to restore Aristide.
In 1995, he was convicted in absentia and given two life sentences for
his alleged role in the 1993 assassination of Aristide financier Antoine
Izmery and the 1994 slaughter of scores of Aristide supporters in
northern Gonaives.
With a smile on his face as he walked into the courtroom, Chamblain
watched as 12 jury members were selected from a pool of more than 200
people.
Co-defendant Jackson Joanis, a former police chief in Port-au-Prince, is
also on trial and charged in the murder of Izmery.
According to Haitian law, people judged in their absence have a new
trial if they return.
Haiti's US-backed interim government has been criticized by human
rights groups for forming alliances with people like Chamblain while it
arrests Aristide officials and supporters.
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Copyright (c) 2004 Prensa Latina, SA. All rights reserved.
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| Title: WMD FOUND! LIBERALS ARE NOW WORRIED! |
18 Aug 2004 06:43:00 PM |
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WMD FOUND! LIBERALS ARE NOW WORRIED!
WMD FOUND IN SADDAM’S BEARD
Bush: Whiskers No Longer a Threat to U.S.
The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq came to an end
today as U.S. military officials found chemical, biological and
nuclear weapons hidden in the scraggly beard of former Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein.
The Iraqi madman had instructed his weapons scientists to create the
WMD in microscopic form so that he could carry them around on his
person at all times, the officials said.
U.S. General Ricardo Sanchez said that the discovery of WMD nestled in
Saddam’s unkempt facial hair closes the book on one of Operation Iraqi
Freedom’s most enduring mysteries.
"Now we know why we never found the weapons of mass destruction,"
General Sanchez told reporters. "We never dreamed they were tiny
enough to be hidden on someone’s face."
The general added that Saddam was capable of launching his deadly
weapons cache merely by shaking his head.
After he was captured, Saddam received a shave and a haircut from the
Halliburton Company, who charged the former dictator the entire
$750,000 he had in his possession.
The deadly beard was then stored in an airtight container and
transferred to a U.S. military laboratory in Wiesbaden, Germany for
future study.
At a press conference in Washington, President Bush praised the
military for removing Saddam’s lethal beard once and for all.
"Thanks to the efforts of our coalition, Saddam Hussein’s whiskers
will no longer harbor the world’s deadliest weapons," Mr. Bush said.
Later in his press conference, the President revealed that U.S. forces
found Saddam after receiving a tip from Tikrit that there was an *****
in a hole in the ground.
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