Joe,
There was no planned coup in Liberia. You don't know Taylor is filled with
fake statements to take attention away from the real issue(indictment). The
real action should have taken place right in Ghana by U.N. arresting him.
Ghana, every one will agree did the right thing to let him go back to the
Liberia wher he created his mess and be arrested there. Arresting him in
Ghana for us would stop the ongoing blood shed we are witnessing now.
Foday Sankor of Sierra Leone was delt with in similar manner but it was by
the Sierra Leoneans themselves in Free Town. Samuel K. Doe of Liberia nearly
escaped Monrovia through the C.I.A. and the Ghanian arrangement at the port
of Monrovia but an insider of the port made a call to rebel leader, Prince
Johnson of the Independent National Patriot Front of Liberia on his base in
Cardwell to come and arrest Doe. That day, Sept. 9, 1990, Samule Doe was
arrested and subsequently executed. See the video tape in title "Liberia,
America's Step Child". Come to my house and you will see it. For Foday
Sankor in Sierra Leone, watch the video tape in title "Cry Free Town". Joe,
these and many more reasons are why we are saying Taylor should leave!!!
Thank you Dr. Ben Weller, we read your article and we are on the same page
with Sierra Leone cause for lasting peace. Foday Sankor is gone and his main
man, Charles Taylor has to follow!!!!!!
Long live the people of Sierra Leone! Lone live the people of Liberia and
long live the Mano River Union!!!
Sincerely,
Kervin Soko
>From: Joe Brewoo <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "AAM (African Association of Madison)"
><[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Coup Attempt Foiled in Liberia
>Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 11:51:02 -0500
>
>Please, let us be objective in our analysis on International Issues. I am
>still waiting for a quote from the International Law Commission of UN which
>mandates any country to effect the arrest of the Sitting President of
>another Sovereign Nation. Emotions and personal sentiments do not help in
>solving any problem.
>
>The fact that Sadam Hussein was ousted by the so called coalition forces on
>the pretext of searching for WMD does not justify the credibility of their
>action. Tell me whether there was any UN sanction for Iraq's invasion and
>occupation by those who deemed it fit to pursue a regime change in Iraq. If
>the so called powerful nations of the world will not respect the UN which
>was established by them but will continuosly prefer to undermine its
>integrity, then that is unfortunate.
>
>How did Slobona Milosovic end up the at the ICJ. He was arrested by his own
>people when he was kicked out of office by his own people. That is
>International law. You do not instigate another country to arrest another
>country's president. That is tantamount to declaration of war by the
>country
>effecting the arrest.
>
>Efforts are being made to pursue peace in the West African community by its
>leaders, please, let us give peace a chance.
>
>Thanks and have a good day.
>
>Joe
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>www.ghanaweb.com: General News of Thursday, 05 June 2003
>
>Coup Attempt Foiled
>
>MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberia's President Charles Taylor said on Thursday a
>coup attempt sponsored by foreign powers had been foiled, just after the
>former warlord had been indicted for war crimes while attending peace talks
>in Ghana.
>
>"While the conference was going on in Accra certain actions were being
>perpetrated in Liberia...the attempt was foiled because the general of the
>army refused," Taylor told state radio after returning to Liberia's capital
>Monrovia.
>
>"Contacts were made by certain embassies near the capital to senior Armed
>Forces of Liberia personnel but they did not accept their proposition,"
>Taylor said. "As in every organization, there are weaklings. Some succumbed
>to that process."
>
>Taylor is a former rebel who started a brutal civil war in Liberia, which
>cost 200,000 lives in the 1990s, to end years of dictatorship. He won
>elections in 1997 but his former enemies launched a revolt in 2000.
>
>The Ghana talks are aimed at pushing Taylor and the rebel Liberians United
>for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) and Movement for Democracy in
>Liberia (Model) to strike a truce, paving the way for a government of
>transition.
>
>But it was Taylor's links with rebels in Sierra Leone's civil war in the
>1990s that caught up with him on Wednesday. A U.N.-backed court indicted
>him
>for alleged war crimes during the war, in which he supplied weapons in
>return for diamonds.
>
>VICE-PRESIDENT DETAINED
>
>After the indictment was served, there were rumors in Monrovia that Taylor
>had been arrested and panic gripped the capital. Civilians raced to their
>homes, shops and banks closed and soldiers spilled onto the streets.
>
>Military sources in Monrovia said that the U.S. embassy had contacted
>vice-president Moses Blah and told him to take over, because Taylor would
>not be returning from Ghana. Blah has since resigned and is being held by
>the Liberian authorities.
>
>The U.S. embassy was not immediately available for comment.
>
>"(Blah) will be explaining in the next few days to the nation and the world
>what perpetrated this action on his part," said Taylor, adding that 30
>senior government officials had been involved in the failed coup attempt.
>
>Liberia has had close ties to the United States ever since the nation was
>founded in 1847 by freed American slaves. Taylor did not accuse any foreign
>embassies by name and referred to the United States as Liberia's "best
>ally"
>on Thursday.
>
>Soon after rumors of his arrest circulated in Monrovia, Taylor went on
>national radio from Accra on Wednesday to say he was free and would return.
>
>The head of an elite security force also spoke on state radio, calling on
>soldiers to remain in their barracks and for civilians to stay at home.
>
>Taylor said on Thursday that Liberia's cabinet would be asked to resign at
>the end of next week to pave the way for a government of national unity,
>once the peace talks had ended.
>
>
>
>
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>Source: Reuters
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