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Article: Severing Liberia's sinews of war: the U.N. is preparing new sanctions against Liberia's strongman Charles Taylor, who seized that African country's profitable international shipping registry and is brokering `conflict diamonds' from guerrillas. (World: Sanctions).(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- November 19, 2001
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Emperors and warlords from Alexander the Great to Napoleon all understood that to wage war they needed both men and money. The French call it le nerf de la guerre -- the sinews of war. Without a constant source of finance, armies collapse like rag dolls, potentates fall like cards. It's one of the oldest lessons of warfare, but sometimes it takes new and horrible scenes of butchery for the world to wake up and do something about it.
With strong support from the Bush administration, the U.N. Sanctions Committee held "private consultations" starting on Oct. 22 to discuss further sanctions against the disputed regime of warlord Charles Taylor in Liberia. Sources at ...