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Us marines kill two more gunmen in haiti Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4560718 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4560718 U.S. Marines Kill Two More Gunmen in Haiti Sat Mar 13, 2004 07:36 AM ET PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - U.S. Marines said on Saturday they killed two more gunmen after coming under fire in Haiti, bringing to six the number of people killed by U.S. forces struggling to restore order in the Caribbean nation after a revolt ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Marine Staff Sgt. Tim Edwards said Marines patrolling on foot and in armored vehicles near the National Palace in downtown Port-au-Prince were fired upon by several gunmen Friday night. "The Marines returned fire and two gunmen were killed. There were no Marine casualties," Edwards said. The Marines, leading a U.N.-sanctioned 2,550-member international peace force, have fought half a dozen gunbattles with suspected Aristide militants since they landed here hours after the former president left the country on Feb. 29, pushed out by monthlong revolt and by U.S. pressure to quit. Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, was due to visit Port-au-Prince on Saturday at the end of a Latin America trip. Supporters of Aristide, a former slum priest and hero of the poor, are enraged at the departure of Haiti's first democratically elected leader. Many of them believe he was removed in a U.S. coup and want him back in office. Aristide's plans to visit the neighboring island of Jamaica next week has stoked tensions in this deeply divided nation. Haiti's new prime minister, Gerard Latortue, said on Friday the decision by Jamaica to allow Aristide to return to the Caribbean was an "unfriendly act." Aristide was expected to arrive on Tuesday on a visit that Jamaica originally said could last up to 10 weeks.

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