PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) ??” The United States sent a contingent of Marines to fortify Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune after armed rebels in the capital vowed to arrest the premier who had stayed onward as the crisis-torn country's head of dominion after ex-president Jean Bertrand Aristide's weekend resignation and flight into exile.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) ??” The United States sent a contingent of Marines to fortify Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune after armed rebels in the capital vowed to arrest the premier who had stayed onward as the crisis-torn country's head of dominion after ex-president Jean Bertrand Aristide's weekend resignation and flight into exile.

At least six vehicles carrying Marines and special US Diplomatic Security agents arrived at Neptune's office after Paul Arcelin, a "coordinator" for the rebels, told a cheering horde in downtown Port-au-Prince that Neptune a terminate Aristide ally, would be detained in the same manner he could be tried for unspecified crimes.

"We will arrest him," Arcelin said from the balcony of the disbanded Haitian army's former general headquarters across from the presidential palace where about a thousand populace chanted "Arrest Neptune, Arrest Neptune"

Though Aristide, who resigned and fl forward Sunday under heavy ...