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- Internal Developments: ELECTIONS: SIERRA LEONE – Local Elections.
- Making a killing: private military firms say they are the future of…
- AMBUSHED A War Reporter’s Life on the Line

Internal Developments: ELECTIONS: SIERRA LEONE – Local Elections.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 1, 2004
Internal Developments: ELECTIONS: SIERRA LEONE – Local Elections. | Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (May, 2004). President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah is an unhappy man following the rude shock he received, from the peopl.

Making a killing: private military firms say they are the future of…
Free with registration – New Internationalist – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 1, 2004
In the capital Freetown two large transport helicopters circled in the air, backing up the Nigerian troops. Painted on their fuselage were US flags. This small US contribution to defending Sierra Leone was conducted by International Charter Incorporated of Oregon (ICI), one of several companies contracted by the US State Department to go into danger zones deemed too risky or unsavoury to commit conventional US forces. For ICI the mission to Freetown was business, but it also advanced US foreign policy–in.

AMBUSHED A War Reporter’s Life on the Line
Free with registration – New Zealand International Review – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 1, 2004
However, both Ambushed, by Ian Stewart, and In Baghdad, by Paul McGeough, provide evidence of the usefulness of their authors’ work. Stewart’s book is a particularly remarkable achievement as he wrote it to detail his experiences leading up to and following a near fatal brain injury. In January 1999 he was covering the conflict in Sierra Leone between the Nigerian-led ECOMOG stabilisation force and the insurgents of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). While he was driving through Freetown, rebel gunmen opened fire on his car. One colleague was killed instantly, but.