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Undergraduate Council President Rohit Chopra ’04 responded to the news of the Quad’s potential relocation in a post to the Council e-mail list: “It seems that the inmates are now completely in charge of the asylum...
...shots rang from the streets. "There will be no fighting again,"? said Lahar Kiazulu, 21, his Klashnikov spray-painted white. "Because if he leaves the country, he is the only man we are fighting against." By then, the ex-president was flying to Nigeria, where he has been offered asylum from his indictment. His parting words had been, "God willing, I will be back...
...when he would depart the country. Nearly everybody wants him out. President Bush has set Taylor's departure as a condition for any large-scale deployment of American peacekeepers, though seven arrived on Aug. 6 to coordinate logistics with the West Africans. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has offered Taylor asylum from a war-crimes indictment. Jacques Paul Klein, the top U.N. envoy in Liberia, has urged Taylor to accept the offer. "Go while the getting is good," Klein says. Even Taylor's militia and congressmen from his own party say he should leave, arguing that his presence would spur...
...quietly," says the Archbishop of Monrovia, Michael Kpakala Francis. "He will try to destabilize whatever government is sitting here." Taylor's support of armed rebellions in nearby countries has turned his neighbors against him, too. Nigeria has gone out on a limb to offer him asylum, and a rejection would earn its enmity. His resignation strips him of presidential immunity, and leaves him vulnerable to arrest by Liberian authorities. Taylor's aides have been calling for his indictment to be lifted before he leaves the country, gambling that a little ambiguity over his intentions leaves him some weight to throw...
...knows who was responsible for the attack. Some of the bystanders surmised it may be payback for Jordan's offer of asylum for Saddam's daughters. Others though it was just deserts for their neighbor's alliance with the U.S. A bearded old man said he didn't care why, though he firmly believed it was pro-Saddam guerrillas. "Look at what they've done, why did they do it here?" he lamented. "The mujahedeen could have done it somewhere else. The only dead are Iraqis...