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US deploys a coast guard vessel near Haiti

The United States deployed Saturdaya coast guard vessel in front of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, where rebel forces were preparing to launch an assault to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

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The United States deployed Saturdaya coast guard vessel in front of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, where rebel forces were preparing to launch an assault to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Authorities of the US Embassy in Haiti refrained from detailingthe mission of the ship, reports from Port-au-Prince said, but theUS government claimed to be preparing the dispatch of 2,000 Marines to be stationed near the coasts of the Caribbean country.

Washington voiced concern over a possible massive arrival of Haitians to the United States and its national coast guards detained in the last two days some 500 Caribbeans trying to reach the shores of Florida.

They were fleeing the escalating violence that in the last two hours killed at least 10 people in Port-au-Prince, where mobs looted warehouses and shops amid persisting anarchy and absence ofpolice.

The US Embassy urged in a communique Friday the Haitian insurgents to stop the assault on the capital and rebel leader GuyPhilippe said he was attending the US call in order not to attack the capital in the next two days, although his forces would remainin the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.

US authorities advised Aristide to quit but the latter pledged to hold office until his term expired in 2006.

The president also urged the capital's residents to end the looting and the bloodshed in face of facts like the appearance in a street of the city of two hand-tied people shot in the head.

The turmoil in Haiti began last Feb. 5 and has already claimed 80 lives.

Source: Xinhua

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