200 - 300 civilians killed in fighting around Liberia's capital, Monrovia, with a further 1,000 wounded, the Washington Post reports. Also reports that "At the United Nations, the British ambassador said the United States was the “natural candidate” to intervene and enforce a cease-fire."
I suspect that Bush isn't quite naive enough to get mixed up in this mess, although certain minicon journalists would doubtless like him to. And indeed, if Bush sees it as his business to save Africans from AIDS, why not save them from Charles Taylor, too?
