The News Review:
- UN Helicopter Crashes In Sierra Leone, Killing 24
- Hezbollah extorting gem profits, US says
- Three former rebel leaders to go on trial in Sierra Leone on Monday.
- RAO (Rao shocked over Helicopter crash in Sierra Leone).
- RAO (Rao shocked over Helicopter crash in Sierra Leone).
UN Helicopter Crashes In Sierra Leone, Killing 24
Washington Post – Jun 30, 2004
Helicopter Crashes In Sierra Leone, Killing 24 Associated PressWednesday, June 30, 2004; Page A18 FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, June 29 — A U. helicopter crashed in flames on a remote hillside in Sierra Leone on Tuesday, killing all 24 peacekeepers, aid workers and others on board.
Hezbollah extorting gem profits, US says
Seattle Times – Jun 30, 2004
More than 100,000 Lebanese live in West Africa, where they have made up the core of the merchant class for more than a century and have long handled much of the diamond business. Many Lebanese retain strong business, cultural and family ties to their homeland…
Hezbollah also has political and charity wings and funds the building of schools, clinics and mosques. Its social programs help win the group support among Lebanese at home and abroad, as does its reputation among many Lebanese as a defender of Arabs against Israel. Only 6,000 Lebanese are thought to remain in Sierra Leone after this country’s 1991-2002 war for control of the eastern diamond fields surrounding Koidu, West Africa’s richest-known deposits. West Africa’s so-called blood diamonds helped to buy arms and fighters in insurgencies that roiled the region in the 1990s. With the end of fighting and the advent of an industry-backed certificate of origin program, Sierra Leone estimates its legal exports of diamonds have soared from $1. 4 million in 1999 to $76 million last year.
Three former rebel leaders to go on trial in Sierra Leone on Monday.
Free with registration – America's Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 1, 2004
-backed war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone on charges ranging from terrorizing civilians to unlawful killing and sexual violence. Rebel leader Foday Sankoh, who led the Revolutionary United Front which made hacking limbs, lips and.
RAO (Rao shocked over Helicopter crash in Sierra Leone).
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RAO (Rao shocked over Helicopter crash in Sierra Leone). | PPI – Pakistan Press International (June, 2004).
RAO (Rao shocked over Helicopter crash in Sierra Leone).
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RAO (Rao shocked over Helicopter crash in Sierra Leone). | Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (June, 2004).