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| Rebels hold 60 percent of Liberia | |
| 2003-04-26 | |
Rebels have seized a stunning 60 percent of Liberia, including most of its diamond-mining areas, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan quoted as saying by a foreign news agency on Saturday. The impoverished West African nation of 3 million people has also acknowledged importing arms and ammunition, despite a U.N. arms embargo, in response to rebel offensives, Annan said in his latest report to the U.N. Security Council. The rebel Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, or LURD, has been fighting to oust President Charles Taylor on and off for the past three years.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 I have discovered that Islamic Liberian "rebels" are helping the Islamic "rebels" in the Ivory Coast rebel against the secular, democratic government. Recently, the Ivory Coast has joined the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in June 2001, to access the limitless funds of the Islamic Development Bank. The goal of this Soddy/Libyan funded Bank is to help create a united Islamic Africa. Imagine the charges of racism if the secular west refused to give aid to muslim countries! Yet the Islamic nations are never called racist by the Left for shamelessly promoting their worldview. It is important always to understand "rebels" in context. |
| Posted by: anon1 2003-04-27 08:12:49 |
| #1 30% of Liberia , or 633,000 odd Liberians are Muslim. Does anybody know what religion these "rebels" are? I think this question is relevant as Muslims are "rebelling" all over the world sometimes under front organisations in holy war. Does anybody know if religion is relevant to LURD? |
| Posted by: anon1 2003-04-27 06:00:37 |