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...President Bush's other military rescue operation -- sending in U.S. Marines last week to evacuate American civilians from war-ravaged Liberia -- the best news was that the Marines encountered no opposition as they ferried out more than 160 people. Rebel leader Prince Yormie Johnson, whose threat to take Westerners captive provoked the Marine intervention, did seize 16 hostages from seven countries, but soon released them...
More promising was the unprecedented decision by Nigeria and four other West African nations to send a peacekeeping force of 2,700 troops into Liberia. The plan: to impose a cease-fire and establish a provisional government that would not include either beleaguered President Samuel Doe or his two rivals, Charles Taylor and Johnson...
MONROVIA, Liberia--Liberia's rival rebel factions and a representative of President Samuel K. Doe have agreed to meet to try to bring an end to the West African nation's bloody civil war, sources said yesterday...
...United States says it will not intervene militarily to end the conflict in Liberia...
...July 29 the violence in Liberia escalated dramatically. In one of the worst massacres of the nine-month-old civil war, troops allegedly loyal to Doe opened fire on some 2,000 refugees holed up in Monrovia's St. Peter's Lutheran Church. Firing with automatic weapons at point-blank range, the forces killed as many as 600. Survivors claimed that most of the victims were members of the Gio and Mano tribes. But the rebels are hardly a single unified front. Johnson's leadership is opposed by Charles Taylor, another insurgent, whose troops control parts of Monrovia...