Posted on 08/09/2003 8:10:56 AM PDT by veronica
US Marines have helped rescue a seven-year-old girl from a rebel-held area of the war-torn Liberian capital Monrovia.
Fighting had trapped American-born Shadya behind front lines with her mother in the US and her father's whereabouts unknown.
But embassy staff in white flack-jackets, flanked by Marines, used a four-day lull in the fighting to cross the front line and rescue the girl.
The rushed her back to the US embassy away from the rebel-held port area along with her 17-year-old sister.
Liberian rebels are fighting to oust President Charles Taylor.
Taylor, a former warlord blamed for 14 years of near-constant war in Liberia and in many of the other conflicts in West Africa, has pledged to resign on Monday and leave Liberia.
But rebel forces are regrouping and there are fears that sporadic outbreaks of violence will develop into the full-scale assaults which have claimed thousands of lives.
My brother, M'bokwa Orkwzaana, is the former Nigerian Minister of Finance, and I am prepared to make you an offer via which you can become rich....
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Liberia is yet another African sh*thole where natives slaughter natives.
Welcome to the reality of Africa.
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Hmmm. While this sounds intriguing, I think I'll pass. I hear there's some Nigerian scam going around...
"Historical proof" of what? and what exactly is "historical proof"?? Do you mean "historical evidence to support my contention"?
Are you clumsily asking if I have historical support for my point that the world would be better off if Africa was depopulated? Are you wondering if the world is a better place because of Africa? the endless tribal warfare? lovely gifts to the world like AIDS (yep............they gave us that, too)? their total lack of contribution to anything resembling modern technology? their utter hatred of each other.......the senseless brutality they show to each other and to whites? the desolation they've wrought through ignorance, pettiness, and outright stupidity? their tinpot dictators? their breeding ground for Islamic terrorists?
JUST tell me where to stop................I CAN go on.
Surely you jest. You can't have two brain cells to rub together and ask me that, can you????
And some Freepers want to bring that to America...
Your papers, "please"!
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