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...Obasanjo said, "I'm not doing this alone to give Mr. Taylor sanctuary." It was a decision taken across the board, even with some major Western countries. It's wrong. Where's the proof from the type of thing that said "Taylor financed?" (A UN-backed court in Sierra Leone has indicted Taylor for allegedly financing and training that country's murderous rebel group, the Revolutionary United Front). Jesus. With what? I came to power. I signed up with a budget of nothing. It grew to about $70 million. How does one fight an internal civil war, total breakdown...
...African peacekeeping isn't easy. On the one hand, the British experience in Sierra Leone showed that a relatively small force of well-trained and organized troops can quickly put to flight much larger rag-tag rebel armies. But political institutions in Liberia are weak, and in a region where war has become a way of life for so many young men, it may have a nasty habit of recurring. And as he's pressing the case for more action against al-Qaeda and regional warlords and demagogues (primarily Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe), President Bush is likely to hear...
...military bases in North and West Africa to complement the Marine facility at Djibouti and expand U.S. capacity for rapid reaction to crises - may tip the Administration in favor of committing some resources to a Liberia mission. Britain did its bit by sending troops to its former colony in Sierra Leone and staying there until the rebellion was crushed; France did the same for its former colony in Ivory Coast; and now there's pressure on the U.S. to tackle the problem in Liberia, a state that is something of an American creation...
...meth labs in places such as Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest, and pot farms everywhere from Kentucky's Daniel Boone National Forest to California's Sequoia National Park, last week's bust was a first. A hiker had discovered 40,000 lavender-hued opium poppies growing in the Sierra National Forest, south of Yosemite. The plants, enough to yield 40 lbs. of raw opium, were in a clearing on a 3,000-ft.-high slope scorched by a forest fire two years ago. When law-enforcement officers burst onto the scene, three men in camouflage outfits were scoring...
...Unlikely. As it turned out, the three men found at the scene were Asian. (No one has yet been arrested; one suspect, who had a brown substance on his hands and scratches on his face, was detained nearby but released because of insufficient evidence.) Law-enforcement officials believe the Sierra Forest opium was meant for smoking, a habit most prevalent among Southeast Asians, who in recent years have flocked to Fresno--40 miles from the site--and to other central California communities. --By Margot Roosevelt