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Us marines killed haitian gunman Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1078744307335&call_pageid=968256289824&col=968705899037 http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1078744307335&call_pageid=968256289824&col=968705899037 Mar. 8, 2004. 10:39 AM U.S. marines killed Haitian gunman Man fired on demonstrators, troops, spokesman explains PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - U.S. marines shot and killed one of the gunmen who fired at a huge demonstration of protesters celebrating the flight from Haiti of president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a spokesman said today. Col. Charles Gurganus told a news conference that the man was trying to attack marines when he was killed Sunday. That raises the toll to six dead and more than 30 injured in Sunday's protest, in the worst attack since Aristide's departure Feb. 29 and the arrival of U.S. and French peacekeepers. Protesters had been calling for the exiled Aristide to stand trial for alleged corruption and killings committed by his armed militants. Gurganus said the shooting occurred near one corner of the presidential National Palace when a marine platoon observed two gunmen. One was killed, he said. Marines did not know what happened to the other, he said. Asked how he knew the man killed was a gunman, Gurganus said: ``He had a gun and he was shooting at marines. That's what I call a gunman."

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