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  Guy Philippe
Guy Philippe joins the new Haitian National Police and is posted at Ouanamithe near Haiti’s northern border with the Dominican Republic.
Guy Philippe serves as police chief in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Delmas.
Philippe claims that he and other rebels, whom human rights groups have demanded be excluded from politics in post-Aristide Haiti (see March 3, 2004), are being misrepresented.
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  Guy Philippe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guy Philippe, leader of the 2004 Haïti Rebellion.
Guy Philippe (born February 29, 1968) was a rebel leader in Haïti during the 2004 Haïti rebellion.
Guy Philippe was trained by U.S. Special Forces in Ecuador in the early 1990s.
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 washingtonpost.com: Haitian Rebels Eye Capital
Guy Philippe, a charismatic former army officer and police chief, said his forces were pausing to "give peace its opportunity," but said they were prepared to move on the capital.
Philippe, 35, and another rebel leader, Louis Jodel Chamblain, 42, said Aristide's departure and his replacement by an interim leader who would call new elections was the only possible peaceful solution to their three-week-old campaign, which has placed more than half the country in rebel hands.
Philippe denied reports here that he has funded his efforts by trafficking drugs; he alleged that Aristide was "the big drug trafficker in Haiti," which the president's supporters strongly deny.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A6002-2004Feb25?language=printer   (1070 words)

  
 Sobaka :: Dossier: Warlord Guy Philippe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Philippe's activities over the next two years are unclear, but he eventually wound up in Santo Domingo, where he moved in circles with several former Haitian military officers living in either self-exile or as fugitives.
In the Summer of 2005, Guy Philippe declared himself a candidate for the presidency of Haiti in elections to be held in the Autumn of 2005.
Philippe also realizes, perhaps better than anyone, that his reputation among the Americans isn't very high, and will probably allow himself to be maneuvered into a position junior to a more respectable leader such as Evans Paul or, if he stays on, interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue.
www.diacritica.com /sobaka/dossier/gphilippe.html   (1174 words)

  
 Print Article: Thousands cheer as rebel leaders enter Port-au-Prince
But the presence in the capital of Philippe and Chamblain - condemned by many as "thugs" and decried by Aristide as "terrorists" - will probably be problematic for the multinational force as it attempts to restore order to pave the way for the formation of a new government.
And though Philippe and Chamblain claim to harbour no political ambitions and have said they are ready to lay down their arms now that Aristide is gone, their popularity was evident, at least in the capital.
The crowd grew rapidly, with groups of 50 to 100 people marching to the square as news of their arrival spread and rebels led long lines of supporters in jogs from the police station across the plaza to a locked and vacant building that once housed the general headquarters of Haiti's military.
www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/03/02/1078117396053.html   (623 words)

  
 Marguerite Laurent.com | San Francisco BayView.com
Guy Philippe, for instance, trained by the U.S. Special Forces in 1994 in Equador, was put in, by Aristide, as chief of police of the North at U.S. insistence.
All three - Chamblain, Tatoune and Guy Philippe - are CIA assets who refused, like Toto Constant, to be subject to Haitian criminal laws and its courts of justice and got away with this because of their U.S. intelligence and diplomatic connections.
Guy Philippe and his gang's first order of business after they were escorted into Port-au-Prince by U.S. soldiers was to "liberate" 2,000 prisoners - murderers and felons - in the Haitian National Penitentiary, including Proper Avril, and unleash them onto Haitian society.
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 Tough rebel both feared and loved
Philippe appears to be first-among-equals of the three leaders of armed gangs whose raids have left some 60 dead since Feb. 5, driven police out of a dozen towns and villages and pushed this grindingly poor nation to the brink of chaos.
Although Philippe's own National Front for the Liberation of Haiti appears to be largely made up of former soldiers seeking revenge against Aristide for dissolving the military in 1995, he said that's not his view.
Philippe was supposed to have been in exile in the Dominican Republic, but last Friday appeared at the side of the until-then main leader of the anti-Aristide revolt, Butteur Métayer, during a news conference.
www.latinamericanstudies.org /haiti/guy.htm   (885 words)

  
 CNN.com - Rebel uses Internet to check world pulse - Feb. 29, 2004
It's a daily ritual for Guy Philippe, who is paying close attention to perceptions of his rebel force at home and abroad as he plots a final drive to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Philippe's other mode of communications is low-tech: he said he sends messages to fighters scattered across northern Haiti by motorcycle couriers, fearing telephone messages could be intercepted.
Philippe doesn't talk about who he is contacting by e-mail or instant message, but he says he is taking orders from no one.
cnn.com /2004/WORLD/americas/02/28/rebel.internet.ap/index.html   (798 words)

  
 National Liberation Front
Guy Philippe is a former army lieutenant who received police training at the Gerardo Alberto Enríquez Gallo police academy in Quito, Ecuador, between 1992 and 1995 (Trenton 20 Feb 2004).
Philippe nevertheless served as police chief of Delmas, a large northern suburb of Port-au-Prince, from 1997 to 1999.
Philippe was transferred to Cap Haïtien in 1999, where he served as police chief for a year.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/nlf-haiti.htm   (1558 words)

  
 Guy Philippe - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
Philippe was accused of masterminding deadly attacks on the Haitian Police Academy and the National Palace in July and December 2001, as well as hit-and-run raids against police stations on Haiti's Central Plateau over the last two years.
Philippe was born to peasants near the provincial town of Jeremie.
Philippe has said he wants to reconstitute the army, which has a history of ruling with brutality, but says soldiers should stay in the barracks and not lead the country.
www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20040307T040000-0500_56739_OBS_GUY_PHILIPPE.asp   (917 words)

  
 Gibert Wesley Purdy: The Theater of Coup
It was late in the year 2000 that Guy Philippe embarked upon the path that would make him a well-known figure on the Haitian political scene.
The day after Guy Philippe's rebels released the "political prisoners" from the National Prison, American reporter Kevin Pina reported, to the Radio Pacifica program Flashpoints, that he had observed Carl Dorelien "eating a cheese and ham omelet [on the patio of] the Hotel Montana" in Port Au Prince.
Philippe and his men proceeded to Port Au Prince where they spent several "free days" terrorizing and killing members and supporters of Aristides Fanmil Lavalas party and destroying their resources.
www.haitiaction.net /News/gwpGPhil.html   (2810 words)

  
 Haiti Rebel Leaders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Chamblain was sentenced in absentia to life in prison for the 1993 murder of businessman and activist Antoine Izmery, as well as for involvement in the 1994 Raboteau massacre.
He is also implicated in the assassination of Justice Minister Guy Malary, who was ambushed and machine-gunned to death with his body-guard and a driver on October 14, 1993.
The leader of the insurrectionary forces, Guy Philippe, age thirty-five, trained by the United States as an army officer in Ecuador.
www.flashpoints.net /Haiti_Rebel_Leaders.html   (505 words)

  
 Who is Guy Philippe
Rebel leader Guy Philippe said his fighters would lay down their arms after receiving security guarantees from the international community.
The meeting with a US colonel was the first contact between Philippe and the US authorities since the launch of the insurrection that ultimately forced Aristide to hurriedly resign as president on Sunday and flee to Africa.
Emboldened by his rapturous welcome on entering the capital, Philippe said Tuesday he had control of the country "on a military and police level" and that the rebels would not disarm until the threat from pro-Aristide "chimeres" gangs was lifted.
www.kwabs.com /whoisguyphilippe.html   (583 words)

  
 In hiding, Haiti rebel denies drug allegations - CNN.com
Philippe then spent time in the Dominican Republic before re-crossing the border back into Haiti to join the uprising against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Philippe took over a motley band of rebels that captured Cap Haitien and threatened to move on Port-au-Prince, the capital.
Philippe's supporters have suggested the United States is trying to silence him, perhaps because he knows secrets about the 2004 revolt.
cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2007/WORLD/americas/08/16/haiti.rebel.ap/index.html   (752 words)

  
 Haiti Background: Guy Philippe : Indybay
Philippe fled Haiti in 2002 to the Dominican Republic after it was discovered that he was plotting a coup.
Philippe, who is also an ex-soldier who had been assigned to the police force that replaced the army, sought refuge in Dominican Republic in October 2000 along with seven others accused of plotting a coup.
Philippe and Chamblain told the paper that Aristide's departure and his replacement by an interim leader who would call new elections was the only possible peaceful solution to their three-week-old insurgency.
www.indybay.org /newsitems/2004/02/25/16714471.php   (2220 words)

  
 CNN.com - Haiti rebels threaten more strife - Mar. 2, 2004
Supporters of Haitian rebel leader Guy Philippe burned paintings from the country's former army headquarters Tuesday as Philippe declared himself the country's new police chief and threatened to arrest Prime Minister Yvon Neptune.
Philippe also demanded the surrender of 20 men he said were leaders of armed gangs loyal to Haiti's exiled president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and he called for the country's interim president to re-establish Haiti's army.
Philippe called on the interim president to re-establish the Haitian army, though he acknowledged that restoring the military would take time, and he called on the international community to assist in its reconstitution.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/americas/03/02/aristide.africa   (966 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Guy Philippe: The rebelling soldier
Mr Philippe, who was by then in the army, escaped to Ecuador, where he allegedly received training from US Special Forces as part of the US campaign to reinstate Mr Aristide.
Mr Philippe's career in the police came to an abrupt end in 2000, when the authorities accused him of plotting a coup with other police chiefs.
On around 10 February, Mr Philippe - who is now married to an American from Wisconsin - slipped back over the border to assume leadership of what he claims is a unified rebel army, the National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Haiti.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3495944.stm   (680 words)

  
 americas.org - Dominicans Hold Haitian Suspect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
On December 28, Dominican police agents arrested former Haitian police officer Guy Philippe, accused of masterminding a bloody attack on the National Palace in Port-au-Prince on December 17.
Philippe, a former police chief of the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haïtien, was arrested in Cibao in the northern Dominican Republic.
Police are seeking the owner of the house, Albert Dorelien, whose brother Carl Dorelien, a colonel in Haiti’s disbanded army and a winner of the Florida State lottery in 1997, has been accused of human rights abuses and is being held at the Krome detention center in Miami-Dade on alleged immigration violations.
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 FOXNews.com - Haitian Rebel Leader Disavows Dictatorship - U.S. & World
Guy Philippe (search), a former army officer and Aristide's former assistant police chief for northern Haiti, said in an interview with The Associated Press that his movement wants to re-establish the army that ousted Aristide and was disbanded after U.S. troops restored Aristide to power in 1994, but said it should not rule Haiti.
Philippe joined the rebellion a week after it was started in Gonaives by a street gang that used to terrorize Aristide's opponents and turned on Haiti's president after its leader was assassinated.
Philippe came from neighboring Dominican Republic, where he fled in 2000 amid charges he was plotting a coup.
www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,112289,00.html   (1004 words)

  
 The Black Commentator - Godfather Colin Powell: The Gangster of Haiti - Issue 80
Philippe’s men chased former Aristide officials to the airport on Wednesday, but were blocked from entering the terminal by U.S. Marines who say their orders now include protecting Haitians from “reprisal” attacks.
Guy Philippe told The Associated Press that he wasn't plotting Aristide's ouster but that the time for a peaceful solution has passed.
Dominican authorities released Philippe, a 35-year-old former Haitian police chief known for his flashy cars, expensive taste and strong-armed tactics to battle crime in the impoverished Caribbean nation, Thursday after finding no evidence he and four others were conspiring against the Haitian government.
www.blackcommentator.com /80/80_cover_haiti.html   (4310 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | Guy Philippe: The rebelling soldier
Mr Philippe was incorporated into the new National Police Force, eventually serving as police chief in Cap-Haitien.
While in the Dominican Republic, Mr Philippe's reputed taste for luxury hotels fuelled speculation he was involved in drugs trafficking - a charge that he vehemently denied in a recent interview.
Despite the shadowy nature of his past, Mr Philippe insists his rebellion was motivated by love of democracy.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3495944.stm   (680 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Haitian rebel leader declares himself military chief, says he plans to ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Rebel leader Guy Philippe declared himself the new chief of Haiti's military, which was disbanded by ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and pledged Tuesday that rebel forces will disarm.
Philippe, who arrived in Port-au-Prince in a rebel convoy Monday, apparently plans to transform his fighters into a reconstituted Haitian army.
Philippe, whom Human Rights Watch said had a "dubious human rights record" as police chief of the capital's Delmas section, was expected to meet Tuesday with opposition coalition members, who pointedly have not met with other rebel leaders notorious for human rights violations.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040302-1519-haiti-uprising.html   (1050 words)

  
 Pacifica.org
The man is paramilitary leader Guy Philippe, a former Haitian police chief who was trained by US Special Forces in Ecuador in the early 1990s.
Philippe declared to the international press that he himself is now in control of 90% of Haiti's armed forces.
Local radio reported that Neptune was evacuated from his office by helicopter as Guy Philippe led a mob in a march to the office.
www.pacifica.org /programs/dn/040303.html   (1856 words)

  
 Catalyzer Journalism and Commentary: The Theater of Coup.
Dramatis Personae: Who is Guy Philippe?
Dramatis Personae: Who is Guy Philippe?, an article by Gilbert Wesley Purdy, as published on Catalyzer Art, which showcases poetry, visual art, and writing from around the globe.">
When the army was disbanded, upon the return of Aristide to office, in 1994, Philippe was made the chief-of-police of the Delmas section of Port-Au-Prince.
The day after Guy Philippe’s rebels released the “political prisoners” from the National Prison, American reporter Kevin Pina reported, to the Radio Pacifica program Flashpoints, that he had observed Carl Dorelien “eating a cheese and ham omelet [on the patio of] the Hotel Montana“ in Port Au Prince.
www.catalyzerjournal.com /art/indexj.php?page=EpZAkkkVllExtNreMj   (2731 words)

  
 DBLP: Guy Louchard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Philippe Duchon, Philippe Flajolet, Guy Louchard, Gilles Schaeffer: Boltzmann Samplers for the Random Generation of Combinatorial Structures.
Pawel Hitczenko, Guy Louchard: Distinctness of compositions of an integer: A probabilistic analysis.
Guy Louchard, Wojciech Szpankowski: Average profile and limiting distribution for a phrase size in the Lempel-Ziv parsing algorithm.
www.acm.org /turing/sigmod/dblp/db/indices/a-tree/l/Louchard:Guy.html   (623 words)

  
 Guy Philippe bluffe les Américains - Haiti Info
Les leçons de cette farce - qui se termine bien, puisque Haïti grâce au culot de Guy Philippe a été débarrassé de l’un des pires dictateurs de sa longue histoire - sont terribles aussi bien pour les Américains que pour les journalistes internationaux.
Pour toute la presse internationale qui a repris les communiqués menaçants de Guy Philippe sans vérifications ni recul, faisant gronder la perspective d’un ouragan de feu imminent sur Port-au-Prince, la gifle n’est pas moins cuisante.
C’est ce que Guy Philippe a très adroitement exploité.
www.haiti-info.com /spip.php?article1761   (653 words)

  
 Ex-rebel Guy Philippe: Haiti failed to stem violence - Foire d'Opinions Haitiennes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Breaking a long silence, Guy Philippe said efforts by Preval and Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis to negotiate a peace agreement with the gangs has not reduced killings and kidnappings in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
Philippe's remarks, his first in months, add to growing calls by Haitian legislators and business leaders for a tougher stance against the gangs, which clash frequently with U.N. peacekeepers in Port-au-Prince's slums.
The ex-police chief was the main leader of a 2004 rebel uprising that ousted former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
www.haitiwebs.com /forums/showthread.php?t=41253   (548 words)

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