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PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS Rebel forces hold an anti-Aristide rally in Gonaives, Haiti. Anti-Aristide rebels seize Cap-Haitien BY PAISLEY DODDS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAP-HATT1EN, HAm - Rebels cap tured Haiti’s second-largest city, Cap-Haitien, after just a few hours of fighting Sunday, claiming their biggest prize in a two-week upris ing that has driven government forces from most of the country’s north. Revelers shot celebratory rounds into the air and people loot ed and torched buildings. Some of the rebels boasted that their next target was the capital, Port-au Prince, still under the control of po lice and militants loyal to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. “We came in today and we took Cap-Haitien; tomorrow we take Port-au-Prince,” said Lucien Estime, 19. “Our mission is to lib erate Haiti.” Rebels said their 200-man force met little resistance except at the airport, where they said eight peo ple were killed. It took just a few hours for the force to push from the southern outskirts into the city center. Thousands of people shouting "Down with Aristide!” marched with a convoy of about 40 rebels in eight commandeered cars. “We’re free!” people shouted, ripping Aristide posters off walls. Some looted the pro-Aristide Radio Africa station, and rebels shot up the building while a crowd clapped. One man, said to be an Aristide supporter, lay dead in the street from a bullet to the stomach. A second man, whose allegiance was not known, was shot in the f head and killed. | Earlier, about 10 armed men stormed the police station and freed about 250 prisoners. The police fled, according to witness Odril Jean, 25. It was unclear whether the attack ers were Aristide militants or the rebels, who have torched a score of police stations and freed prisoners since the uprising against Aristide began Feb. 5. “The people are happy. Finally we’re free from terror,” said Fifi Jean, 30, unperturbed as she stood in front of the blazing police head quarters building, where people looted everything in sight. Teenagers paraded in police hats and body armor while rebels handed over keys of cars to resi dents and drank beer. People heft ed away weapons, typewriters,. mattresses, even doors. Rebel commander Jean-Baptiste Joseph, formerly head of an asso ciation of ex-soldiers from Haiti’s disbanded army, declared “It’s the army that’s in charge here. It’s the army that will free Haiti.” U.S. forces prepare for rotation BY JIM KRANE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAMP ARIFJAN, KUWAIT - A quarter-million soldiers — all but a few of them Americans — are within weeks of passing through this desert kingdom on their way to or from the war in neighboring Iraq, the largest such rotation of U.S. forces in history, according to military planners overseeing the project. “This is a breathtaking, histo ry-making operation,” said Army Maj. Gen. Stephen M. Speakes, who runs the rotation. Explaining the troop rotation is simple: About 130,000 U.S. sol diers in Iraq will go home and 110.000 will take their places for about a year, in Operation Iraqi Freedom 2. The maneuver involves eight of America’s 10 active Army di visions and a U.S. Marine Expeditionary Force, along with 40.000 troops from a few dozen countries in the U.S.-led coalition. Military planners have chore ographed the arrivals of dozens of ships and hundreds of aircraft bearing fresh troops and their gear into Kuwait, the center of the operation. New arrivals swap places with weary soldiers streaming in from Iraq on trucks and planes that, in a matter of hours, turn around and ferry newcomers north. Already, as many as 4,000 trucks are on the road between Kuwait and Iraq at any moment, said Army Brig. Gen. Jack Stoltz, who directs movement of troops and distribution of equipment. That number will rise as the rotation hits a crescendo in ear ly March, when as many as 60,000 troops at a time will be passing through Kuwait, ferrying enor mous amounts of gear, including tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles and helicopters. By the time rotation finishes in May, the Pentagon will have shipped nearly 450,000 tons of equipment to the Iraqi theater and sent home even more — 700,000 tons. The Army has engineered the rotation so that battle-numbed U.S. forces rarely meet their fresh re placements, even though both groups pass through Kuwait at the same time. Homebound troops stay at camps close to the seaports. New arrivals are trucked to desert camps where they assemble their gear and train to kill the rebels who may attack their convoy when it crosses the Iraqi border. After March, from the point of view of U.S. military’s trans portation gurus, the U.S. opera tion in Iraq will wind down, de manding fewer ships, planes and trucks. -1-1 PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS An Israeli crime scene investigator walks past a bus. August - December 2004 Priority I: University Wide Events.......February 20,2004 Priority II: Carolina Productions.February 23,2004 Priority III: Registered Student Organizations.Feb. 24,2004 Priority IV: Other....February 26,2004 NOTE: Academic space will not be reserved until September 6,2004 Because of the high demand for space in the Russell House a "lottery" system is used to ensure equitable distribution of space to registered student organizations. 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