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...Taylor is unimpressed by outside efforts to calm the civil strife. "I am not going to roll over and play dead," he told TIME. "This is an attempt to rescue Doe. A peacekeeping force means all sides agree. We have not agreed. If we're attacked, the price will be expensive. The world is going to remember...
...Taylor does not trust any of them. "Peacekeeping?" he scoffs. "We've arrested Guinean soldiers here in Liberia. How can they come to keep the peace? We've captured Nigerian weapons from Doe's soldiers. How can you bring a jaguar into the house and say he has come to make the peace? ECOWAS is going to make this another Vietnam -- a war that never ends...
...think that ECOMOG can. While President Dawda Jawara of Gambia played host at a meeting in the capital of Banjul to choose an interim President for Liberia, men with guns were very much in control. Taylor forcibly moved nearly 2,000 Nigerians and Guineans, mostly civilians seeking refuge in their embassy compounds in Monrovia, south to the port city of Buchanan, out of the reach of rescue. With Taylor's rebels shooting at Nigerian soldiers and Burkina Faso sending in troops to support Taylor, escalation of the war has already begun...
...Want a short-term worst-case scenario?" asked a Western diplomat in the Ivory Coast. "Everyone divides into constituent parts: Doe, Taylor and ECOMOG. Want a long-term worst-case scenario? Doe goes back to his Krahn in Grand Gedeh County. Taylor goes back to where he started in Nimba. And it's Doe against Taylor." All over again...
...went to Liberia at the invitation of rebel leader Charles Taylor, the man who last December launched the campaign to topple Doe, a former army master sergeant who had seized power a decade earlier. In January part of Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (N.P.F.L.) broke away and formed a separate faction led by Prince Yeduo Johnson, an army captain. Johnson and about 400 of his rebels captured, tortured and then killed Doe on Sept. 10, but about 1,000 of the slain President's followers still hold the executive mansion in Monrovia and are fighting...