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| Guerrilla Boss Reported Killed in Liberia |
| 2003-05-07 |
| Sam Bockarie, one of the most feared guerrilla fighters to emerge from more than a decade of overlapping wars in West Africa, was killed yesterday in a shootout with Liberian soldiers, the Liberian government announced. Heard he was wounded, must have gotten worse. Known as "Mosquito" because he said he sucked the life from his enemies, Bockarie had been a fugitive since March, when a special court investigating atrocities in his native Sierra Leone indicted him for crimes against humanity, including mass murder, enslavement, mutilation and rape. Guess I'll cancel plans for that movie. Yesterday in Monrovia, Liberia's capital, the spokesman for President Charles Taylor announced Bockarie's death, saying Taylor's erstwhile ally was killed while resisting arrest. Liberian authorities said Bockarie died in a shootout near the border with Ivory Coast, where he reportedly had been associated with an Ivorian rebel faction, but sources in Monrovia said Bockarie was killed near his home in the capital. "He is dead," Reginald Goodridge, Taylor's spokesman, told the Reuters news agency. "His body is right here." "and he's beginning to get ripe" |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 Looks like the "Mosquito" has gone to the big Bug Zapper in the sky. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-05-07 13:28:18 |
| #1 Another gunny goes to Boot Hill in Africa's Wild, Wild West. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-05-07 09:46:43 |