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DuctapeFatwa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 09:37 PM
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Liberia's Blah Urges Peacekeepers to Halt Killings
Liberia's caretaker president urged West African peacekeepers on Monday to push into the lawless bush and stop carnage taking place despite a week-old peace deal meant to end nearly 14 years of conflict.

Reports of civilians, including women and children, shot or hacked to death began to emerge from the hard-to-reach interior...
"They killed some 25 people. I saw the bodies myself," Targen Wanteh, a former Liberian ambassador to Guinea, told Reuters by satellite phone from the bush near Bahn in eastern Nimba County after fleeing what he said was a rebel attack.

"They shot some people, cut women and children into pieces, opened up their stomachs, cut their heads and laid the bodies in front of their houses," said Wanteh.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20030825_401.html


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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 09:38 PM
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1. lawless bush
a coincidence? I don't think so. :grr:
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 09:48 PM
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2. i guess
this is why 'our' guys are back on the boat and leaving.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 09:57 PM
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3. Wouldn't want to get in the way
of killing off some more brown people?
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Voltaire99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-25-03 11:23 PM
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4. Their unelected president is a Blah, too?
Know how they feel.
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