LIBERIA: U.S. MILITARY TEAM HAS BEEN EXAMINING WAYS OF BRINGING STABILITY TO LIBERIA

Record ID: 646600

  • Title: LIBERIA: U.S. MILITARY TEAM HAS BEEN EXAMINING WAYS OF BRINGING STABILITY TO LIBERIA
  • Date: 8th July 2003
  • Summary: (U4) MONROVIA, LIBERIA (JULY 8, 2003) (REUTERS ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV US CONVOY DRIVING THROUGH STREETS (2 SHOTS) 0.12 2. SV MILITARY TEAM GETTING OUT OF CAR 0.19 (W5) MONROVIA, LIBERIA (JULY 8, 2003) (REUTERS ACCESS ALL) 3. SV OFFICIALS, U.S. NAVY CAPTAIN ROGER COLDIRON, HEAD OF MISSION AND US AMBASSADOR JOHN BLANEY VISIT HOSPITAL AND TALK TO MEDICAL STAFF INSIDE (5 SHOTS) 0.47 4. SLV/SV CHILDREN RUNNING BEHIND U.S. CAR (2 SHOTS) 0.55 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 23rd July 2003 13:00
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  • Location: MONROVIA, LIBERIA
  • Country: Liberia
  • Reuters ID: LVAH1QQMF5Q7D75MOE044JIY7C
  • Story Text: With U.S. President George W. Bush still undecided on
    whether or not to send peacekeepers to Liberia, a U.S.

    military team there has been examining ways of bringing
    stability to the strif-torn country.



    Cheering crowds thronged the streets of Liberia's
    coastal capital shouting "We want Bush" as a U.S. assessment
    team drove through on its way to camps housing tens of
    thousands of refugees in the broken West African country.

    Liberians want U.S. peacekeepers to help end 14 years
    of violence and believe that only they can win respect from
    the generation of young fighters nurtured on war and inured to
    atrocities.

    Many Liberians feel the United States has a duty to help
    because of links with a country founded by freed American
    slaves in the 19th century.

    Hundreds of people have been killed in fighting in the
    capital Monrovia over the last month, not far from the heavily
    fortified U.S. embassy where gun-toting U.S. Marines leapt out
    of helicopters in flak jackets and helmets on Monday.

    U.S. President George W. Bush, currently on a 5-day
    African trip, has repeatedly called for Liberian President,
    Charles Taylor to step down so that a peace process can be
    started.

    Taylor said on Sunday (July 6) he would accept asylum from
    Nigeria but gave no word on how soon he might go.

    (tw/nc)




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