Reply #14: Troops spread out from capital [View All]

Rebels won't disarm until pro-Aristides do

By Paisley Dodds, Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- French troops Friday began deploying to northern Haiti as U.S. troops fanned out to the east and the south, pledging to provide security to deliver food, medicine and other essential supplies disrupted during last month's rebellion.


In February, drug lord Beaudoin "Jacques" Ketant was sentenced to 27 years for money laundering and moving 41 tons of Colombian cocaine through Haiti to the United States. He told a Miami court that Aristide "turned the country into a narco-country."

Ira Kurzban, then a Miami attorney for the Haitian government, dismissed the allegations, calling Ketant "a lying, convicted drug dealer."

Aristide had accused the rebels of funding their uprising with money from the sale of illegal drugs.

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