Pentagon Allegedly Quashed Liberia Report Story aired: Monday, August 18, 2003
Relative Calm is returning to Liberia's capital of Monrovia for the first time in weeks. Shops and markets are open again; refugees are out looking for food and some way of paying for it. Negotiators hope to wrap up a power sharing agreement Monday between the government and two rebel groups.
In the meantime, the U.S. could have gone into Liberia weeks ago to stop the fighting and allow delivery of emergency aid. But a report from American military specialists who made that recommendation was apparently spiked by the Pentagon before it reached the president.
That story comes from the Los Angeles Times this weekend. Reporter Maggie Farley joins us on the line from New York.
