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Liberia Launches Military Campaign To Route Rebels

Sun, July 8, 2012 7:00pm

Story by Tamasin Ford




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Liberia is launching its first large-scale military operation since the end of its brutal civil war. Liberia's army, which has been trained by the U.S. military over the last six years, is going after mercenaries and rebels who are using thick forest as cover from which to launch ambushes in neighboring Ivory Coast.

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