linearthinker said…
July 5, 2009
Update # 3
Just rec’d text from Hunter – “Shots fired. Saw 2 different blood puddles. Heard 2 maybe 3 dead.”
Please note this is not confirmed. Again, this is not confirmed.
Please take with a grain of salt until I can confirm with Hunter via voice or email
Posted by Hunter Smith at 5:25 PM …
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Ousted President Manuel Zelaya appealed to the Honduran military to return its loyalty to him as he prepared to land in the capital Sunday, facing warrants for his arrest by security forces defending the airport against a crowd of thousands.
Speaking live from the Venezuelan plane carrying him back to Tegucigalpa, Zelaya said he was just minutes away from landing in his high-stakes attempt to return to power.
He asked that soldiers return their allegiance to him, “in the name of God, in the name of the people, and in the name of justice.”
But the politicians who ousted him aren’t backing down, and violence broke out among the huge crowd surrounding the airport, with at least one person killed so far. The man was shot in the head by gunfire from inside the airport as people tried to break through a security fence, according to an Associated Press photographer at the scene…
