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In Gonaives and other cities, Haiti, violent protests, peaceful protests, fast growing armed revolts, 'criminal Aristide must go,' murders and burning since uncommonly chief bandit Jean-Bertrand Aristide brutally murdered his notorious criminal Amiot Metayer - February 15-17, 2004

                                                   

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A protester is detained by police during an opposition march in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, February 15, 2004. (AP/Rodrigo Abd)
                              

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U.N. Representative in Haiti, Adama Guido, right, walks with U.S. Ambassador James Foley, center, and M. David Lee, left, OEA's Special Representative in Haiti, left, after a press conference in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                                    

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U.S. Ambassador James Foley talks to reporters during a press conference in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004. At left is UN Representative in Haiti, Adama Guido. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
                                

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A worker of the international non-governmental organization CARE unloads food handouts to be distributed among local residents at the Park Vincent in Gonaives, Haiti Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004.(AP Photo/Walter Astrada)
                                        

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Local residents line up at the Park Vincent in Gonaives, Haiti, to receive food from the international non-governmental organization CARE, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)
                                              

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A rebel of the Gonaives Resistance Front drinks water as he and a cadre sit by sacks of food to be distributed by the international non-governmental organization CARE in Gonaives, Haiti Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)
                                                            

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Local residents peers through the wall as workers of the international non-governmental organization CARE pile up sack sof food at the Park Vincent in Gonaives, Haiti Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)
                                        

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Local residents peers through the wall as workers of the international non-governmental organization CARE pile up sack sof food at the Park Vincent in Gonaives, Haiti Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)
                                                     

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French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, followed by a security guard, arrives at the French Speaking Communities International organization in Paris, Tuesday Feb. 17, 2004. France's government called together an emergency team Tuesday to deal with the increasingly dangerous situation in Haiti and was weighing whether peacekeepers could intervene to quell the poverty-ridden island's bloody uprising. De Villepin said France, Haiti's former colonizer, could contribute from its overseas territories in the region. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena )
                                           

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An armed rebel of the Anti-Aristide Resistance Front patrols a street where a police station was set ablaze in Gonaives. US Secretary of State Colin Powell said there was 'no enthusiasm' at this point for sending international forces into troubled Haiti, after France said it would consider sending peacekeepers.(AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt)
                                                     

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Haiti's contested President Jean Bertrand Aristide has appealed for international help to contain a 12-day-old uprising on the Caribbean island state after armed rebels seeking his ouster took control of another town and killed the district police chief(AFP/File/Thony Belizaire)
                                            

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In Paris, Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said that France, with overseas territories in the Caribbean and South America, was in a position to rapidly deploy resources to Haiti(AFP/File/Prakash Singh)
                                                       

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Haitian men belonging to the 'Anti-Aristide Resistance Front' patrol a street in Gonaives. Haiti's contested President Jean Bertrand Aristide has appealed for international help to contain a 12-day-old uprising on the Caribbean island state after armed rebels seeking his ouster took control of another town and killed the district police chief.(AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt)
                                               

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A rebel with the Gonaives Resistance Front stands guard as a van of the Red Cross International van with medical supplies at the entrance of Gonaives, Haiti, Monday, Feb. 16, 2004. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)
                                                 

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A Red Cross International van passes a barricade of the Gonaives Resistence Front at the entrance of Gonaives, Haiti, Monday, Feb. 16, 2004. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)
                                 
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A Red Cross International van carrying medical supplies passes a barricade at the entrance of Gonaives, Haiti, Monday, Feb. 16, 2004. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)
                                        
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A man holds a poster with a mock portrait of Aristide as a devil during a march in Gonaives, Haiti, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2004.The Gonaives Resistance Front used to be allied with Aristide, but turned against the Haitian President last year and continues to control the city. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)
                        
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