Haitian ex-solider details coup plans

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- An ex-soldier admitted Thursday he attacked Haiti's National Palace in a coup attempt, saying conspirators included a former army colonel and two former police chiefs. Former Sgt. Pierre Richardson was captured with a bullet wound in his leg after Monday's assault stopped on a highway to the neighboring Dominican Republic, police said.

Richardson, the only palace attacker caught so far, spoke a day after one of those he implicated, former Col. Guy Francois, was arrested for helping to plan the failed coup.

Police brought Richardson before reporters at a police station where he said 23 or 24 attackers stormed the palace in an attempt to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was unharmed.