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Administration Denies Aristide Kidnapped

Submitted March 1, 2004 - 3:59 pm by David Keating
More (and official timing as well):

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=589&u= /ap/20040301/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/us_haiti_18& amp;p rinter=1

Administration Denies Aristide Kidnapped    
15 minutes ago  

By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer

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"He said the United States arranged for a plane to fly to Haiti to pick up Aristide. The aircraft arrived about 4:30 a.m., McClellan said. Aristide went to the airport in the company of his own personal security guards, the spokesman said.

Asked directly if Aristide left of his own free will, McClellan said, "Yes."

Powell said flatly, "He was not kidnapped," and criticized U.S. congressmen for saying that Aristide had been kidnapped without checking with the Bush administration first to see what the story was.

"He was not kidnapped. We did not force him on the airplane. He went on the plane willingly," Powell said.

The secretary said Aristide wrote a letter of resignation and only then did the United States bring an airplane to help him leave the country."

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