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Today on Flashpoints: Haiti's US-supported coup leaders continue their rampage against democracy and the people's will; we'll continue our reports from Haiti and also get background from Washington on the Bush connection to the Haitian killing fields. Also, 25% of the Palestinian population of East Jerusalem are slashed away from their land by the apartheid wall even as talks contesting its legitimacy continue in the Hague; and from Greensboro NC, the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report: Haiti's President Aristide calls for international defense to halt a coup in the making as the Bush Administration looks the other way; and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is in Baghdad this week looking to annex Uzbekistan for the American Empire in Iraq, where "He saw; he conquered; he came." And recently obtained classified documents reveal that on February 16, 2002, George Bush signed a secret Security Council directive establishing the goals and objectives for going to war with Iraq, and a month later General Tommy Franks conducted a major Iraq war exercise code-named Prominent Hammer - a year before the public knew anything about the planned invasion.
05:45 Haiti Crisis Worsens: Special
Correspondent Kevin Pina gives another phone report from Port-Au-Prince
where he spoke today with President Aristide; On the phone from
Washington DC, Larry Birns, Executive Director of the Council on Hemishperic Affairs joins
Dennis and Haiti
Action Committee founder Pierre LaBossiere with updated information
about the crisis and Washington's role in the turmoil. Today so-called opposition leaders
rejected the international proposal for a peaceful resolution to the
crisis; roads into the Capital are blocked; Rebels enter Port-De-Paix,
but are expelled from Cap-Hatien. Washington continues its stall
tactics, Powell
awaits a political resolution before sending peace-keepers, and
refuses even to allow the Haitian police force to purchase tear-gas and
riot-control supplies. The French are prepared to help, but are looking
for a signal from Washington. Media continue to blame Aristide for
minor flaws in the legislative election in May, 2000 (before Aristide
was even elected in November, 2000 by a huge majority) A half-million
impoverished Haitians have taken to the streets in Port-Au-Prince in
support of their popularly-elected President and their Constitution
(see The Security Bugaboo
section in COHAs Press
Release. Pierre LaBossiere provides horrifying background on
the convicted mass-murderers now terrorizing the country, including the
Roboteau massacre of April 22,1994. Join
the DEMONSTRATION
3PM-5PM outside the San Francisco Federal Building at Golden Gate and
Polk.