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Many soldiers in the main force of Haitian rebels seeking to overthrow President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are armed with American M-1 and M-14 rifles given to Haiti in the 1980s. The turncoat militia - the Artibonite Resistance Front, formerly known as Aristide's loyal Cannibal Army - is hardly the first foreign military force to get its hands on a stockpile of U.S. weapons. Here are some conflicts of the past few years that the U.S. has unwittingly armed. Afghanistan In the 1980s anti-Soviet mujahedin got Stinger missiles and Chinese-made AK-47s, later used by the anti...
...witnessing the coup d'?tat machine in motion." Yvon Neptune, Prime Minister of Haiti, urging international help to quell an uprising against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
Metayer's cohort, then called the Cannibal Army, was once said to lend its grim services to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Today it makes up the most violent component of a growing opposition that threatens to destabilize Haiti. Now dubbed the Artibonite Resistance Front, the group took control of Gonaives, Haiti's fourth largest city, a week ago by attacking the main police station. All that remains of it and the adjacent prison is a few concrete walls...
...Marines have been sent in to secure the American embassy in Port au-Prince as Haiti braces for a bloodbath. A rag-tag rebel militia on Monday overran the country's second city, Cap Haitien, and vowed to press on to the capital in order to unseat President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide, who was restored to power by U.S. military intervention in 1994 following a coup remains the country's elected president, but opposition groups point to electoral fraud in the 2000 parliamentary election to argue that he has no legitimacy nor any intent to submit to the will...
...abandoning its unconventional weapons program. Road to Peace Mapped KASHMIR India and Pakistan agreed to a staggered timetable for peace talks to begin after Indian elections due to be held in April, and to include negotiations over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. A Last Attempt? HAITI President Jean-Bertrand Aristide accepted an international peace plan aimed at ending the violence that has seen armed rebels take control of a large swath of the north of the country. However, neither the political opposition nor the rebels immediately endorsed the proposal, which would see Aristide remaining in office with reduced powers...