In Haiti, rebel leader Guy Philippe announced yesterday “The country is in my hands.” He claimed he was the chief of Haiti and that he would oversee the reformation of the Haitian military. He also threatened to arrest Prime Minister Yvon Neptune whose home has already been torched and looted. The New York Times reported Haiti “seemed to be falling into the clutches of a self-appointed armed junta.” The U.S. made efforts to distant itself from Philippe and other gang leaders. A State Department spokesman said, “The rebels do not have a role in the political process,” said a State Dept. spokesman. And Haiti’s former dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, better known as Baby Doc, announced yesterday that he would return to Haiti. Meanwhile Haiti’s President Jean Betrand Aristide has been incommunicado since Monday when he accused the US of kidnapping him and overthrowing him in a coup. His attorney Ira Kurzban said Tuesday that he was being denied access to a telephone in the Central African Republican where he was taken.