Carney replacing Foley?

[Michel Nau*]

Eske youn moun kap konfime nouvel sa.

US Ambasade Forley ap kite Haiti tre byento.

E Timothy M Carney ansiyen ambasade en Haiti 1988 1989

ap chita kom ranplasan provisiyor de misye Foley.

Si mwen pa twoupe mwnen, eske se mem Carney sa ki chita kom board mamber nan Haiti Democracy Project?

Si se vre es ke gen yon konfli dintere?

Bam yon ti limiye souple sou 2 kestiyon sa yo!!!!

Mesi

[jafrikayiti*]

Conflict of Interest doesn't apply in this Bush era.

The objective is to crush the popular movement by any and all means necessary. So Carney is back. Paul Denis just handed his report and will be rewarded in the - enlarged puppet regime.

Lavalas leaders who refuse to be collabos will continue to get killed, imprisoned or exiled. Haitian intellectuals will continue to write analysis that pretends Haitians are still running the country and every now and again one of the lot of collabos will go in a hysterical feat when his sleep has been disburbed for one too many soul-wrenching, guilt ridden nigths.

Then, from the remnants of Site Solèy, Bélair, Gonaives, Okap.... from the unexpected corners of New-York, Soweto, Kingston, Montreal and Miami, old women, and young boys shall utter the voices of Dessalines, Toya Mantou, Biko, Sankarra, Malcom, Nana Yaa Asantewa..... A great thunder.....and many zonbis shall awake from their
"Massa let's make a deal" dreams. Others will die in their useless sleep, unfortunately.

But, in the end, talk of "conflict of interest or not" will become irrelevant. Men and Women would have finally stood up to defend their humanity, their dignity, their RIGHTS to existence.

Ou kwè se blag? Se sa yo te konn ap di tou an 1802 ak 1803....jiskaske you jou 18 novanm sa yo pa t kwè a, se li ki te rive. Rochambeau plwaye ke li, li pran wout dlo, li naje pou li soti.

AMANDLA !

[Michel Nau*]

Li ta bon kè nou fe yon ti retou de 3 a 4 moi pou nou jetè yon kou dey sou rapo HDP te fè sou voyaj yo an Ayiti.

Mwen kwe kè An'n Pale genyen yon copi de rapo sake yo te remet USAID, State Department e 2 e 3 lot oganizasiyon.

Si nou reli rapo sou Ayiti sa kè T. M. Carney te fè avek lot kamarad li yo, nap gen yon idè klè de ki travay kè li pral fè a 2 moi de eleksiyon yo.

Bonne Lecture.

Michel

[Marilyn*]

Haiti Democracy Project, 18 August 2005: http://www.haitipolicy.org/content/3186 ... 1271d64f10

Ambassador Carney Named Charge d'Affaires to Haiti

webmaster, 2005-08-18
Haiti Democracy Project web page item #3186 (http://www.haitipolicy.org)

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- U.S. ambassador to Haiti, 1998-99
- Founding board member of the Haiti Democracy Project, November 20, 2002
- Elected chairman of the board on April 8, 2004
- Wrote executive summary of board's fact-finding mission report, March 16, 2005.
- Named to interim post in Haiti, August 2005. Resigned from board.

News coverage:

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti. U.S. Ambassador to Hait
i James B. Foley will leave his post later this month, the embassy announced.

Foley, a career diplomat who has led the U.S. mission in Haiti since May 2003, will be replaced on an interim basis by former U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Timothy Carney, the embassy said in a statement Monday.

The embassy didn’t give a specific reason for Foley’s departure, saying only that the move had been long planned and wouldn’t affect U.S. policy in Haiti.

Embassy spokeswoman Carolyn Cooley said Foley would step down sometime in August, before Haiti’s scheduled general elections in October and November.

The change comes as Haiti’s U.S.-backed interim government and U.N. peacekeepers struggle to halt a wave of violence by armed gangs that threatens to disrupt the elections, meant to fill a power vacuum left after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted in February 2004 revolt.

"The United States will continue to fully support the current transition process in Haiti, which should lead to elect
ions at the end of the year and bring to power a government elected by the Haitian people," the statement said.

Cooley said Foley would remain with the U.S. State Department but declined to say in what capacity.

Carney, who was ambassador to Haiti between 1998 and 1999, will hold the position of charge d’affaires until a new ambassador is named, the statement said.

Carney recently described Haiti’s U.S.-backed interim government as being in a state of systemic weakness after visiting the country earlier this year.

"The transitional authority is weaker than anyone had expected," Carney told a gathering in March at the Haiti Democracy Project, a Washington-based think tank that he heads. "There doesn’t seem to be an ability to get things done."

Carney also worked on the U.S.-led reconstruction team in Iraq in 2003, and was previously the U.S. ambassador to South Africa.

[Webmaster's note: [u:4aac91
0e45]Sudan[/u], not South Africa]

[Marilyn*]

It's a helpful exercise to track where these Ambassador types have served before and what took place in that country around the time they were there in order to ascertain what the real task, as opposed to the stated task, is going to be in the new assignment.

I did this with Bourik Chaje and found a pattern of destabilization from Viet Nam to Haiti to Peru.

This Carney is much more than Chairman of the Board of HDP. And his over-riding task over the years would appear to have been to do more than oversee and manage destabilization from afar. He's an on-the-ground enforcer and fixer. At least that's my conjecture.

Time will tell as to why Foley is leaving the Haiti Scene now and Carney is relocating from Washington to PauP at this strategic moment. With the shake-up at State (Noriega out), it will be interesting to see the twists and turns of implementation of Washington's Plan.

We're now entering a new phase.



Marilyn

[jafrikayiti*]

"Les chimères de Washington", an expression made famous and probably invented by the last outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, Brian Dean Curran, is an important clue to understand what lays ahead for us.

Most observers understood that Curran, who was angered by the unorthodox attacks suffered from Stanley Lucas et.al., was referring to the Haiti Democracy Project, among others, when he spoke of the "chimères of Washington".

See Excerpt from Kevin Pina's "The Bush Administration's End Game for Haiti", The Black Commentator, December 4, 2003 Issue 67

“This July, even the departing U.S. Ambassador to Haiti, Brian Curran, lashed out against some U.S. political operatives, calling them the "Chimeres of Washington" (a Haitian term for political criminals). The most recent of these Chimeres have been associated with the Haiti Democracy Project (HDP), headed by James Morrell and funded by the right-wing Haitian Boulos family. In
December 2002, the HDP literally created from whole cloth a new public relations face for the official opposition, the "Coalition of 184 Civic Institutions," a laundry list of Haitian NGOs funded by USAID and/or the IRI (International Republican Institute), as well as by the Haitian-American Chamber of Commerce and other groups.” So who is this mysterious Haiti Democracy Project (HDP) that created the Group 184 and believes it is qualified to intervene in Haiti’s internal political affairs and thereby represent the hopes and aspirations of 8 million Haitian citizens?

Novelist cum journalist, Herb Gold, knows the HDP well. Gold recently joined the negative hit-piece parade against the Haitian government and wrote in the SF Chronicle last October 19, “Of course, there are still folks who love Aristide; Mussolini also has his loyalists. The variety-pack of current issues in Haiti includes fraudulent elections, street violence, an entrenched drug distribution apparatus, and state-implicated murders and
disappearances.” What Mr. Gold doesn’t mention is that his presence in Haiti had been conjured by a notable HDP founding board member eleven months earlier to the day. On November 19, 2002 at the opening of the HDP in Washington, D.C., former U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Timothy Carney pleads, “There needs to be something done to begin to get this process under way. I think that the seminars that the Haiti Democracy Project has in mind doing in an effort to spark a debate are probably the only thing that can be done given the fact that there aren’t any journalists worth their salt to go down and write about Haiti. Where’s Herb Gold? I hope he is still alive. Yes, he is still in San Francisco.”

http://www.peacehost.net/EPI-Calc/HAITI_EndGame.htm


So, we are facing a strange situation where Noriega is out of the game yet, it is one of his klan that goes to Haiti to supervise the next offensive. What deals are being made within the Washington cabal is still unclear. But, there can be no doubt that
the Chimères of Washington having launched a successful and deadly offensive against those they dub "chimères" in Haiti, are ready to consolidate their hold on the political apparatus - so that their victory becomes irreversible.

Yo konn konte...men nou menm tou nou ka kalkile....

[T-dodo]

Plaidoirie de James B. Foley en faveur de Yvon Neptune avant son départ d’Haïti
Aristide n’a jamais été kidnappé, dit-il
Posté le vendredi 12 août 2005
Par Radio Kiskeya

L’ambassadeur des Etats-Unis à Port-au-Prince, James B. Foley, a fustigé vendredi la justice haïtienne en raison de la libération de l’ex-paramilitaire Louis Jodel Chamblain alors que l’ex-premier ministre lavalas Yvon Neptune est encore en prison.

Pour James B. Foley qui en était à sa dernière conférence de presse à l’occasion de son départ d’Haïti, la libération de Chamblain (qui fut aussi l’un des co-leaders de l’insurrection armée contre Jean Bertrand Aristide en janvier-février 2004), va contribuer à ternir davantage l’image d’Haïti à l’extérieur. Le système judiciaire ne fonctionne pas en Haïti, dit-il, donnant l’assurance que la communauté internationale va aider les autorités haïtiennes à le réformer.

In
sistant sur le cas de Neptune, le diplomate révèle que l’ex-Premier ministre avait joué un rôle important dans la mise en place du gouvernement de transition. Les Etats-Unis, dit-il, inscrivent désormais le cas de M. Neptune au chapitre des violations des droits humains. Il prévient tous ceux qui se rendent coupables de telles violations qu’ils ne seront pas les bienvenus aux Etats-Unis (référence implicite à d’éventuelles mesures de suspension de visas d’entrée des concernés aux Etats-Unis).

Evoquant directement l’affaire de La Scierie dans le cadre de laquelle M. Neptune se trouve encore incarcéré, M. Foley a pris ses distances par rapport à ceux qui nient qu’il y ait eu tuerie ou massacre et qui prétendent qu’il se fut simplement agi d’affrontements entre des factions armées. Il soutient cependant qu’aucun témoignage n’a encore établi la responsabilité directe de M. Neptune dans ces incidents. M. Neptune aurait quand même pu être poursuivi en justice, mais, dit-il, l’ex-Premier ministre est resté un
an en prison sans avoir été présenté par-devant un juge.

Aux partisans d’Aristide impliqués dans la violence, l’ambassadeur sortant américain a lancé le message à savoir que les armes ne les conduiront nulle part. Ils sont aujourd’hui seuls, ils ont été abandonnés après qu’ils aient été trompés à divers points de vue, indique-t-il. « D’abord, Jean Bertrand Aristide n’a jamais été kidnappé, comme il le prétend ». James B. Foley affirme à ce sujet que le leader lavalas a personnellement sollicité son concours pour sortir du pays, lui demandant d’éviter que son projet ne s’ébruite afin que ses partisans les plus zélés ne réagissent. En ce sens, révèle l’ambassadeur, l’ex-Président avait éloigné ses gardes du corps les plus dangereux en leur confiant de fausses missions, le temps pour lui de contacter certaines des personnes qui devaient l’accompagner dans son exil volontaire, le 29 février 2004. L’ancien prêtre de St Jean Bosco avait également pris le soin de démobiliser ses "chimères" (partisans armés)
qui avaient, avec le feu vert des autorités, érigé des barricades autour de la luxueuse résidence d’Aristide dans la commune de Tabarre (nord de la capitale).

« Aristide était notre ami. Nous lui avons sauvé la vie à deux reprises (1991 et 2004). Nous avons envoyé 20.000 hommes de troupes le ramener en Haïti. C’est lui qui a changé, pas nous », a déclaré le diplomate, le visage fermé.

L’ambassadeur démissionnaire souligne que les partisans d’Aristide ont été induits en erreur sur le soutien international dont bénéficierait ce dernier. Il n’en est rien, a-t-il dit. C’est faux également, ajoute-t-il, que l’Union Africaine et la CARICOM ne supportent pas les élections en Haïti. Très amer, Foley a énuméré quatre mensonges que l’ancien dictateur n’a cessé de répéter, depuis son départ de Port-au-Prince.

Concernant la sécurité, James B. Foley, félicite la mission de l’ONU et la Police Nationale d’Haïti pour le travail accompli afin de venir à bout de la violence et de l’insécurité. Il appelle l
es partisans de l’ex-Président Aristide à déposer les armes.

A propos des élections, James B. Foley encourage les partis politiques à ne pas accepter que leur campagne soit financée par le secteur de la drogue. Il invite ceux qui appartiennent à ce secteur à se tenir à l’écart des élections. Il a averti que les Etats-Unis couperont toute aide à Haïti si le gouvernement issu des prochaines élections est impliqué dans le trafic illicite des stupéfiants et les violations des droits humains.

James B. Foley a enfin affirmé que son départ d’Haïti n’a absolument rien à voir avec la politique. Cette décision remonte à plus d’un an et le secrétaire d’Etat américain d’alors, Collin Powell, en avait été informé, précise-t-il.

James B. Foley est remplacé à son poste, à titre de chargé d’affaires a.i., par l’ex-ambassadeur des Etats-Unis en Haïti, Thimothy Michael Carney. Ce dernier est arrivé vendredi à Port-au-Prince. [jmd/RK]

Radio Kiskeya

[Michel Nau*]

What kind of message they are sending to us? Voters beware, the Boogeyman, is out!

James Foley with a bittersweet tone openly criticized the Bush administration of supporting criminals, and detaining innocent citizens. This could be risky for this young diplomat to make such statement. Young and career employees from the State Department are being frustrated those days of interference of the Home Land Security Administration in diplomatic affairs.

The same scenario happened 10 years ago when the Defense Intelligent Agency (DIA) teamed up with the Military to oust Jean Bertrand Aristide and later with FRAPH to keep him away from coming back.

In this power struggle, it seems that H.S.A. had the upper hand…. again.

C’est du déjà vue!!