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Bodyguards Beat Up Three Haitian Reporters | |
2005-10-04 | |
A rare public appearance by Haiti's interim president turned violent Monday when his bodyguards, apparently Americans contracted by the U.S. State Department, beat up several journalists at the country's central courthouse, the journalists said. At least two Haitian journalists were assaulted by security contractors and police as they tried to enter the Supreme Court to cover an appearance by interim President Boniface Alexandre, who was presiding over a ceremony for the yearly reopening of the courts after the summer holidays. A reporter for independent Radio Metropole, Jean Wilkens Merone, said he was cursed at and beaten inside the courthouse by another guard. He said at least one other journalist also was struck.
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Posted by:Fred |
#3 more than a dozen were in = these guys tried to crash a full house "do you know who we are?" "yep" "OWWWW" |
Posted by: Frank G 2005-10-04 13:46 |
#2 Champagne said the interim president's security was handled by DynCorp International of Irving, Texas, under a contract organized by the State Department. I guess Blackwater was too busy being the Hessians of Iraq and hunting down poor black folks in New Orleans to take this gig? |
Posted by: tu3031 2005-10-04 12:48 |
#1 his bodyguards, apparently Americans contracted by the U.S. State Department How good of the journalist to research his lightly-tossed-off allegations! /sarcasm |
Posted by: trailing wife 2005-10-04 12:39 |