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07-25-2003, 10:33 PM
American Troops Sent to Liberia's Coast
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON - President Bush ordered U.S. troops into position off the coast of Liberia Friday to support the arrival of a West African peacekeeping force, as renewed violence in the capital brought despairing pleas for American help.
More than two dozen people were killed and many more were wounded by a mortar barrage near the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia. One shell hit the embassy grounds but injured no one.
In Washington, Bush stopped short of saying the Americans would participate directly in a peacekeeping mission in Liberia, where rebels are trying to oust President Charles Taylor, a former warlord.
Pentagon officials said the only major troop movement in the works was the dispatching of three Navy ships carrying hundreds of Marines to the waters off the Liberian coast.
It was not clear whether the Marines would go ashore.
Complete article:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030726/ap_on_re_af/us_liberia&cid=515&ncid=716
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON - President Bush ordered U.S. troops into position off the coast of Liberia Friday to support the arrival of a West African peacekeeping force, as renewed violence in the capital brought despairing pleas for American help.
More than two dozen people were killed and many more were wounded by a mortar barrage near the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia. One shell hit the embassy grounds but injured no one.
In Washington, Bush stopped short of saying the Americans would participate directly in a peacekeeping mission in Liberia, where rebels are trying to oust President Charles Taylor, a former warlord.
Pentagon officials said the only major troop movement in the works was the dispatching of three Navy ships carrying hundreds of Marines to the waters off the Liberian coast.
It was not clear whether the Marines would go ashore.
Complete article:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030726/ap_on_re_af/us_liberia&cid=515&ncid=716