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Article: Q&A: The Liberian conflict; Michael Peel is a freelance journalist based in Lagos, Nigeria. He recently traveled in Liberia. Mr. Peel discussed the recent fighting in Monrovia with csmonitor.com's Jim Bencivenga.(WEB)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- July 24, 2003
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Given the chaos from fighting in Liberia, how compromised are international aid workers? How effective can they be in providing emergency relief?
Aid workers say the fighting is an enormous obstacle to their efforts to provide humanitarian relief. I spoke on Monday to Dominique Liengme, head of the delegation for the International Committee of the Red Cross, who was trapped in the US embassy because of mortar fire landing in the surrounding Mamba Point diplomatic area. Ms. Liengme said she counted 25 explosions in the space of a few hours. "We were just about to leave when the explosions started," she said, speaking by telephone from the embassy. "Since then we ...