Wow! What happened to the Liberia story? Fell right off of cable news

[NNN0LHI]

We were getting live reports throughout the day until the Liberians began stacking up bodies right outside the US embassy. Then everything went like. Liberia? What Liberia? Don't know nothing about no Liberia. Who turns the news on and off like that? And if Bush wants to dither around on this situation that is his call. He thinks he is the pResident. But at least our media should be square with us about what is going on there.

Don

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1504&ncid=1504&e=3&u=/afp/20030729/ts_afp/liberia_030729224415

Liberian rebels shell capital, dim ceasefire hopes

MONROVIA (AFP) - Liberia (news - web sites)'s main rebel group shelled downtown Monrovia, saying their promised ceasefire would not take effect until troops loyal to President Charles Taylor halted their attacks.

The continued fighting came as Nigeria and the United States were haggling over who will pay to send a west African peacekeeping force to the war-torn west African country, as fears of widespread hunger and outbreaks of disease mounted.

General Benjamin Yeaten, deputy chief of staff of the Liberian army, visited at the frontline by AFP journalists in the evening, said the rebels "are continuing to shell the city."

Rebels from Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) earlier Tuesday announced a unilateral ceasefire but later qualified it, saying it would take effect only when the loyalist forces also ceased fire.

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[neuvocat]

1. Quit distracting me. They're gonna tell us

Kobe's middle name is after the commercial break.

[w13rd0]

2. Bean...

...as reported by Boondocks. It's Kobe 'Bean' Bryant or somesuch. Yes, it's rather tragic that this has slipped off the map, especially as the situation is only getting worse. But Bush has shat to bomb and people to ignore...

[whoYaCallinAlib]

3. Um . . . could being in black Africa have anything to do with it?

I dunno . . . but Africa never gets the attention it deserves.

[goforit]

4. Liberia was on BBC news/ channel 9 pbs.........sad civil war there!

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[TankLV]

5. You must remember one important fact:

EVERY SINGLE group bunkerboy has appeared with/in front of has been doomed and greatly harmed virtually minutes after. EVERY SINGLE ONE!

It's all one big lying "photo op".

Simply disgusting.

[KeepItReal]

6. Nothing to see here...no troops going in at all

From the National Urbal League conference:

"Backstage after his speech, Bush spoke for about 15 minutes with Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., Jesse Jackson and former Clinton administration Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater. The three encouraged Bush to intervene in the civil war in Liberia (news - web sites).

Jackson said he told Bush the United States has a legal obligation to help Liberia under a treaty that Abraham Lincoln signed with the country. He said it's not enough that Bush has ordered U.S. ships to take up positions off the African coast.

Cummings said Bush told them he wanted to let troops from other African nations go in first to bring humanitarian aid and peace. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030729/ap_on_re_us/blacks_politics_10

We are not gonna lift a finger to help Liberia...who fought with us in WWI, and we used as a base in WWII.

[Clete]

7. Reuter's posted this four hours ago.

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3182618

I guess it's not important to CNN and the other media Ho's