Firestone And The Warlord

Firestone And The Warlord
Liberia's president Charles Taylor speaks to journalists near a refugee camp on the outskirts of the Liberian capital Monrovia, Wednesday, March 26, 2003 after a rebel attack. It was the closest fighting has come to the capital since rebels started their bloody campaign in 1999. Leaders of the rebel group Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) couldn't immediately be reached for comment. (AP Photo/Pewee Flomoku)
Liberia's president Charles Taylor speaks to journalists near a refugee camp on the outskirts of the Liberian capital Monrovia, Wednesday, March 26, 2003 after a rebel attack. It was the closest fighting has come to the capital since rebels started their bloody campaign in 1999. Leaders of the rebel group Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) couldn't immediately be reached for comment. (AP Photo/Pewee Flomoku)

HARBEL, Liberia — The killers launched from the plantation under a waning moon one night in October 1992. They surged past tin-roofed villages and jungle hideouts, down macadam roads and red-clay bush trails. More and more joined their ranks until thousands of men in long, ragged columns moved toward the distant capital.

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