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Rebels threaten attack on second largest city plus aid

(19 Feb 2004) Gonaives 1. Wide people lined up to receive food 2. Woman peering over wall 3. Close up rebel holding crowd back 4. Medium shot men unloading food supplies from CARE truck 5. Wide food supplies stacked on ground 6. Wide line of men moving bags of food 7. Dense mass of people waiting to receive food 8. Men passing bags of food forward 9. Rebels sitting around leaders 10. Rebel leaders sitting in row 11. Rebel leader Guy Phillipe laughing with other rebels 12. Pan to right of rebel soldiers 13. Close up Kalashnikov automatic rifle 14. Rebels 15. Rebel leaders sitting in row 16. Close up two rebel soldiers 17. Weapons in lap of rebel 18. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Guy Philippe, rebel leader: "There have been massacres in all over the country, in Belladere, in Cap Haitien, in San Marc, in Petit Goave by these people (supporters of Lavalas Family party). Now we are going to end it and we will take Cap Haitien." 19. Rebel walking down street Cap Haitien 20. Aerial of Cap Haitien 21. Woman walking in street 22. Medium shot traffic in street 23. Wide exterior Cap Haitien police station 24. Medium police station 25. Close up policemen preparing to leave on patrol 26. Wide police vehicle with policemen leaving on patrol STORYLINE: Rebel leaders in Gonaives say they will soon take Cap Haitien, Haiti''''s second city. The comments came from former Port-Au-Prince police chief Guy Philippe, who slipped back into Haiti from the Dominican Republic last week. Philippe fled to the Dominican Republic after being accused of fomenting a coup in 2002. Talking to APTN, Philippe said the rebels had enough forces to take Cap Haitien, a city of 500,000 people. Several of the rebel soldiers with Philippe appeared to be from the Dominican Republic, although none would agree to talk to the press. Just yesterday the US Ambassador to Haiti, James Foley, said international observers believed the rebels were not numerous, nor did they have the support of the populace. But in Cap Haitien, policemen made clear they were too scared to patrol the streets. And there were fears rebels already have infiltrated the northern port and more were headed that way. Some observers said many in Cap-Haitien would welcome the rebels, even though their leaders are former military and police officers with infamously bad human rights records. Cap-Haitien locals have reported gangs of pro-government thugs have burned homes and attacked opposition supporters. Back in Gonaives, food aid continued to arrive for some 200,000 people cut off from the rest of the country by the unrest. CARE delivered rice, beans and millet to thousands of people lined up at their compound near the outskirts of town. Under the watchful eyes of armed rebels, men, women and children received enough basic staples for a few days. Aid officials have said a humanitarian crisis is looming in the country as the political unrest - in which 60 people have died - continues. The crisis has been brewing since Aristide''''s party swept flawed legislative elections in 2000. Donors froze millions in international aid, leaving Aristide no means to keep election promises to make a better life for Haiti''''s 8 million (m) people, half of whom go hungry daily. Since then, Aristide has lost support amid charges he uses police and militants to terrorize opponents and allows corruption fuelled by drug-trafficking to go unchecked. The once-beloved former priest, who won Haiti''''s first free elections in a landslide in 1990, was ousted by the military eight months later. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...