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...force to arrive. Their hopes were raised Wednesday as a group of ten Nigerian officers toured the war-torn capital Monrovia to assess conditions for deployment of a battalion of troops. Elsewhere, the regional security organization ECOWAS announced that a contingent of 1,500 Nigerian troops would arrive in Liberia early next week to start the peacekeeping mission, and appealed to Liberia's president, indicted warlord Charles Taylor, to keep his word and take up asylum in Nigeria within three days of their arrival. But having been disappointed many times over the past month - by failed cease-fires...
...were to leave this country before the peacekeeping troops arrive in this city, I see disaster, I see mayhem, I see rape, I see total destruction." CHARLES TAYLOR, President of Liberia, at a prayer meeting in a stadium housing those made homeless by his country's civil...
...Liberia is dialing 911 and nobody is picking up the phone." Sam Nagbe, An aid worker for Oxfam, in the failing state of Liberia...
That grisly image is just one indication of the havoc that 14 years of civil war have wrought in Liberia--and a sobering reminder of the challenges ahead for the Bush Administration, should it decide to send U.S. troops to Liberia as part of a 1,000-person, African-led peacekeeping force. Accompanying Bush on his five-nation trip to Africa last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell said any deployment of U.S. troops would be "very limited in duration and scope" and would coincide with the departure of Liberian President Charles Taylor, who Bush has demanded must give...
...country's 3.5 million people appear desperate for foreign intervention, particularly by the U.S., which many still view as Liberia's godfather more than 150 years after the country was founded by freed American slaves. Foreign diplomats say the risk that the U.S. will face resistance is low. "The Liberian people love Americans too much," says a Western regional analyst in Monrovia. "This really is one country in Africa where it would be relatively easy to solve the problem with a small stabilization force and a small capital investment...