(3 Mar 2004) +++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE THIS STORY CONTAINIS IMAGES OF DEAD BODIES/GRAPHIC IMAGES+++
1. Various rebel leader Guy Phillippe and others come before the press
2. Newspaper
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Phillippe, Haitian rebel leader:
A - "The people that are on the streets in Cap Haitian, in ... Gonaives, in Port-au-Prince, all over the country. I am their chief. I am their chief.
Q - Do you see yourselves as the Chief of a new Haitian army?
A - No, The President should name him. But for now, until the President takes the decision, we have the moral obligation to help people."
4. Press
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Phillippe, Haitian rebel leader:
"Every time we have a good president, they kill him. They want to take all power here so they can keep on stealing the country's money. They have contact with the international community to come and give people we want to help, to give us pressure. But this time we are not going to take this pressure. If they want to kill me, I am ready. They can come and kill me, I'm ready to die for my country. That is why, that is what I am going to do now, today. And I will fight for my country and for my people. And we are ready to die. Thank you very much. "
6. End of press conference with Guy Phillippe and others
7. Street with jeeps driving past
8. Injured man by skip
9. People look at injured man
10. Red Cross ambulance arriving
11. Workers putting man in ambulance
12. People watching, man being moved
13. Ambulance driving away
14. Various rebels organising queues in petrol station
15 Van driving with troops in the back
16. Body of youth lying on street
17. Close up body
18. Exterior presidential palace
19. US Marines on guard
20. Airport - troops waiting
21. C130 on tarmac
22. US Marines at airport
23. Troops walking
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Colonel Dave Berger, US Marines
"We'll continue to flow in. Additional forces, additional marines will come in today, tonight and tomorrow. We'll take a look at some key facilities in Port au Prince, as I'm directed to do so. We won't move any forces initially but just take a look at them. These are facilities that are important to the government to reopen and stabilise the city, get things back to normal."
25. Various armed men patrolling streets, shooting
26. Armed men stop man on motorcycle at gun point
27. Men shooting into the air
STORYLINE:
Haitian rebel leader Guy Philippe on Tuesday declared himself Haiti's new military chief.
Flanked by rebel leaders and senior officers of Haiti's police force, Philippe told a news conference: "I am the chief."
Asked what he meant, he clarified, "the military chief."
Philippe reiterated he had no political aspirations, saying he would follow orders of the legal president.
Asked if that meant the rebels would disarm if asked, he said "We will."
Haiti's Chief Justice Boniface Alexandre was installed as interim leader on Sunday, in the hours after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
fled a bloody uprising and under pressure from the United States and France.
Philippe, a former provincial police chief of Aristide, has said he wants to reconstitute the army that ousted Aristide in 1991 and
that Aristide disbanded in 1995.
Philippe was a cadet in the Haitian army, undergoing officer training at a military academy in Ecuador when the country suffered
under brutal military dictatorships.
Tensions have arisen about the role the rebels will play in the aftershock of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's hasty departure on Sunday.
A preteen boy with a bullet hole in the head lay by a market square.
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