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Liberian Rebels Loot Rubber ... Plantation
EFLRebels in Liberia stormed and looted a rubber plantation in the southeast of the country and have begun selling off its assets, the plantationâs manager said. To me, the most surprising element of this story is that any assets remain to be looted. I thought Chuck cleaned the place out. David Saydee said on Monday that he and other company officials were chased out of the 5,500 acre Sinoe Rubber Plantation in Sinoe County last week by armed fighters of the Movement for Democracy in Liberia rebel group known as MODEL. "When they invaded, there were eight hundred metric tons of rubber sitting to be shipped for sale. They have trucked the rubber away for sale," Saydee said in Monrovia after a weeklong trek to the capital. MODEL leader Thomas Nimely Yaya, and other rebel officials, could not be reached for comment. They were trying to figure out how they were supposed to wrap the leaves.... About 11,000 U.N. peacekeepers are in this West African country to secure the peace deal. The U.N. force, which is expected to grow to 15,000 by March, has not yet deployed in Sinoe County, a MODEL stronghold. I hope that MODEL never sucessfully determines the secret recipe for flubber. We donât want that proliferating. Posted by: Super Hose 2004-02-19 |
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