--- Elaine <http://www.hotmail.com/~et> wrote: > Maxine had called Amy this morning after she had received a call from > Aristide himself, who is in the Central African Republic. He was not > hand-cuffed but he did consider himself kidnapped because the American > military (CIA?) told him he had to leave or be killed, and then > escorted him onto a plane and out of the country. The standard news > is not reporting this. Actually, I heard it on All Things Considered and even Newshour mentioned it. But, it's obvious that the Bush administration doesn't care since they can dismiss it as a conspiracy theory. And, actually, the Bush administration may have miscalculated -- it might have been better just to let Aristide get murdered by the rebels and then there would be no questions about the rebels being funded by the Dominican Republic and so on.