We'll stay and sleep for one or two days, and after will decide. ... We'll keep on sending troops but we won't attack Port-au-Prince until we understand what the U.S. means.

I can sleep when I don't have troops.

[Rebel leader Guy Philippe threatened late Wednesday to send his forces after Aristide, The Associated Press reported.] We're going straight for the National Palace where we're going to arrest Aristide, ... It will be over very soon.

If the U.S. asks us to stop the advance, we don't want to have any problem with the international community,

I don't care what they said about me. I am running to serve my country, not the international community.

On September 18, the troops will be withdrawn from their posts because we want to see the decommissioning process first.