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- "In
Africa, US looks beyond Liberia: Continent's
many failed states attract attention as security risks loom." ... "As a
US military commander heads into Liberia to help stabilize its war-torn
capital, it won't be the first time American forces have carried out new
operations in Africa lately." ... "On the continent's east coast, a US
antiterror base in Djibouti recently expanded to include some 2,000 troops.
In northwest desert nations such as Mali, US advisers have given all-terrain
vehicles and special-operations training to military and police units."
-By Abraham McLaughlin
-CSMonitor
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- "Taylor
prepares to leave Liberia: Liberia’s President
Charles Taylor prepared to step down reluctantly on Monday under pressure
from the United States to end slaughter that has gripped Liberia and West
Africa for nearly 14 years." ... "The former warlord is due to hand over
power to Vice-President Moses Blah, a former brother-in-arms from the Liberian
leader’s days of bush war and in Libya’s guerrilla training camps, at a
ceremony on Monday." -AP
and -Reuters via -MSNBC
- "Our
Mission In Liberia." ... "The past weeks of waffling
in Washington over what role, if any, U.S. forces would play in bringing
peace to Liberia has sorely eroded America's credibility in West Africa,
a region that is supplying an increasing amount of oil to the United States.
Besides calling for Taylor to leave the country and helicoptering in approximately
a half-dozen Marines, President Bush has failed to adequately handle a
humanitarian crisis in which timely and decisive American action could
have saved countless lives." ... "The establishment of a humanitarian corridor
in Monrovia and the funneling of aid supplies and staff to the city will
not, by itself, dispel the overwhelming sense among Liberians that they
were abandoned by the United States and left to die. Only visible and concerted
U.S. leadership on the ground in Liberia can change the perception among
the people of West Africa and the rest of the world that the indiscriminate
shelling and shooting of civilians was not deemed in America's national
interest to stop." -By Raymond C. Offenheiser and
Kenneth H. Bacon -WashingtonPost
- "Bush
sends small team of Marines to Liberia." ... "After
at least two months of studying ways to help Liberia, President George
W. Bush on Wednesday sent a half-dozen Marines to assist West African peacekeepers."
... "Though an additional dozen or so could be added to the team, no decision
has been made to send any more than 20, three officials said."
-AP via -IHT.com
- "Taylor reportedly
to resign Thursday." ... "Charles Taylor will formally
announce his intention to resign Thursday as president of Liberia, ending
years of brutal rule and clearing the way for a multinational peacekeeping
force to impose order, the West African alliance announced Wednesday as
U.S. Marines arrived in the country for the first time." ... "Taylor, a
former warlord blamed in 14 years of conflict in once-prosperous Liberia,
was expected to accept an offer of asylum from Nigeria, said Mohammed Ibn
Chambas, head of the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS,
the alliance that is organizing the peacekeeping effort." -By
Jim Miklaszewski with the -AP
and -Reuters via -MS-NBC
- "Ecstatic
Liberians welcome U.S. military team." ... "In a
human cascade of welcome and relief, chanting crowds of Liberians swarmed
the motorcade carrying a team of U.S. military
experts as they ventured into Liberia's capital Tuesday morning to assess
the city's humanitarian and security situation for a possible deployment
of U.S. troops." ... "Bush, who is considering dispatching troops to lead
an "international stabilization force" in the West African nation of 3
million, said his decision will hinge in part on the assessment by the
team of about 30." -By Karl Vick-WashingtonPost
via -StarTribune.com
- "Is
US inching toward intervention? Heading to
Africa Tuesday, Bush has built a stage where Liberian peacekeeping is possible,
but not inevitable." ... "President Bush has long expressed skepticism
about committing US military forces as peacekeepers overseas." ... "Now,
on the eve of his first presidential visit to Africa, he appears willing
to do just that in a corner of the world few Americans can point to on
a map. But if US forces do wind up in Liberia - a West African nation at
a crucial moment in its 13-year civil war - the administration can frame
its involvement in a way that limits the impression that the United States
is becoming sheriff of the world, analysts say." -By
Linda Feldmann -CSMonitor
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- "Taylor
accepts Nigerian asylum offer." ... "Liberian President
Charles Taylor on Sunday accepted Nigeria's offer of political asylum,
paving the way for his departure, a requirement President Bush laid down
for any U.S.-led peacekeeping force in the West African nation." ... "Neither
Taylor nor Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who made the offer during
a 90-minute meeting in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, indicated when Taylor
would actually leave. Both warned that too hasty a departure could spark
new fighting in the country, where hundreds were killed in a failed rebel
push into the capital last month." -By Tom Squitieri
-USATODAY
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- "Turmoil
in Liberia [CNN Fact Sheet]." ... "Violence and tension
has gripped Liberia since Samuel Doe seized power in a 1980 coup that left
President William Tolbert dead. Doe, an ethnic Krahn, was the country's
first leader not descended from the freed American and West Indian slaves
who founded the West African country in the early 19th century. He ruled
as a dictator, and the election he won in 1985 was widely regarded as rigged."
... "In 1989, Charles Taylor -- once a member of the Doe government and
a descendant of the freed slave ruling class -- led a revolt that resulted
in Doe's execution and triggered a civil war involving several factions
that blighted Liberia for seven years. An estimated 200,000 people died
before a shaky peace agreement was mediated in 1996. Taylor's faction emerged
from the fighting as a dominant force, and when special elections were
held in 1997, he and his National Patriotic Party won an overwhelming victory."
-CNN / Fact
Sheets
- "U.S.
to send small military team to Liberia: Goal
is to assess needs for possible peacekeeping mission." ... "The team of
about a dozen people will depart from Europe as soon as air transport can
be arranged, the official said." ... "The team's task will be to determine
the requirements for a peacekeeping mission in Liberia, which could include
troops from the United States and the Economic Community of West African
States." ... "A Pentagon official stressed that sending a U.S. assessment
team does not signal the beginning of a larger movement of troops to the
region." -CNN
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- "Rebels
strike back at gates of Liberian capital." ... "Liberian
rebels have struck into the outskirts of the capital Monrovia, sending
thousands of people fleeing for safety and shattering hopes of a peaceful
end to West Africa's bloodiest war." ... "Founded by freed American slaves
in the 19th century, Liberia has known little but killing and chaos since
1989. Its war has sent savage offshoots into neighbouring Sierra Leone,
Guinea and Ivory Coast." ... "Two rebel factions controlling 60 percent
of the country are determined to get rid of Taylor, a former warlord who
won 1997 elections and has been indicted by a U.N.-backed court for war
crimes in Sierra Leone." -By Alphonso Toweh -Reuters
via -MSNBC
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- "Switzerland
Blocks Accounts Linked to Liberian Leader (Update1)."
... "Switzerland ordered banks in Zurich and Geneva to block all accounts
linked to Liberian President Charles Taylor following a request for assistance
from a United Nations- backed court investigating war crimes in Sierra
Leone." ... "The request extends to Taylor's relatives, members of his
government, business people and companies, the Swiss Justice Ministry said.
The Special Court for Sierra Leone has charged Taylor with crimes against
humanity in connection with the 1996- 2001 civil war."
-Bloomberg
- "Marines
heading for possible evacuation of U.S. citizens from Liberia."
... "More than 2,000 Marines aboard the amphibious assault ship Kearsarge
are steaming toward the west coast of Africa to prepare for the
possible evacuation of U.S. citizens from strife-torn Liberia, military
officials said Saturday." -NYTimes
via -StarTribune.com
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