http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L08604240.htmMONROVIA, July 8 (Reuters) - Forces loyal to Liberian President Charles Taylor turned back a U.S. military survey team before it could get to a refugee camp it had planned to visit outside Monrovia on Tuesday, witnesses said.
A U.S. embassy official said he had no immediate explanation for why the team was turned back from the checkpoint at Iron Gate, three km (two miles) before the turnoff for the refugee camp.
"We got turned around. The military turned us around," the official said. "I don't know why." The humanitarian survey team which got down to work on Tuesday is meant to look at how to bring stability to the broken West African country. The United States is still considering whether to send peacekeepers.
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