George Bush Harboring Terrorists In Queens
Emmanuel "Toto" Constant, leader of the Haitian death squad FRAPH
11/2/01 2:39:40 PM
Moscow Times
Moscow, Russia -- Friday, Nov. 2, 2001. Page VIII
Global Eye -- Constant Craving
By Chris Floyd
The "Bush Doctrine" now guiding American policy holds that any nation
which
harbors terrorists becomes the enemy of the United States. In that case,
the
New York City borough of Queens had better brace itself for a barrage of
cluster bombs � because a convicted terrorist murderer is being harbored
there
by a rogue government.
Emmanuel "Toto" Constant, leader of the Haitian death squad FRAPH, has
been in
the United States for seven years, tenderly sheltered by the CIA even
after his
conviction on mass murder charges. In addition to your standard rape and
pillage, FRAPH is also famous for its practice of "facial scalping" �
peeling
the flesh from a dying victim's face with a machete.
While employing these tactics to destabilize Haiti's government during the
last
Bush administration, Constant was also an agent for the CIA, which used
his
thugs to thwart Haiti's first democratically elected president,
Jean-Bertrand
Aristide. The populist Aristide government was overthrown in 1991,
ushering in
a three-year "reign of terror" by Constant and other warlords. Bush p�re
first
protested, then went back to business as usual with the face-scalping
killers.
In 1994, with the U.S. regime temporarily in the hands of moderate forces,
Aristide was restored to office. Constant threatened to use biological
weapons
against U.S. troops and urged his followers to kill Americans. Despite
these
appeals, Constant used his CIA connections to secure safe passage to the
United
States. He now lives comfortably in Queens, where he dabbles in real
estate,
investment consulting and openly plotting to overthrow Haiti's government
again.
Constant was convicted in absentia by a Haitian court last year in a trial
conducted by American-trained jurists, with international supervision to
ensure
fairness. But despite calls for his deportation, Toto remains under the
protection of American security services, which operate outside the bounds
of
international law. Having failed in their bid to sabotage Aristide's
return in
1994, they confiscated thousands of secret documents detailing FRAPH
operations � including their own cozy love letters to Toto, no doubt �
then
cowed the administration of wobbly moderate Bill Clinton into blocking
Constant's deportation for the usual "national security" reasons.
In the last few days of his term, Mr. Wobbly recovered enough of his
always-
intermittent nerve to ship the secret FRAPH documents back to Haiti, in
hopes
of kick-starting the extradition process. But the new Bush regime is
openly
hostile to Aristide, and most expect the U.S. security services to put up
a
stiff fight to protect their "honored guest." In fact, with his old Bush
contacts riding high again, Constant is already picking out curtains for
Haiti's presidential palace.
What's that sound we hear in the Port-au-Prince night? It's the steely
zing of
machetes being sharpened.
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