Volume 47, Number 10 · June 15, 2000
Some Thoughts on Sierra Leone
By Brian Urquhart
'We are not here to fight anybody,' the commander of the British paratroops in Freetown told the BBC on May 11, 'but if we are attacked we shall give a very robust response.' His forces had secured the airport, evacuated foreign nationals, and were steadily moving into the city. On the night of May 11 they loudly fired their weapons in what was described as an exercise. 'Just training,' their spokesman said, but they could be heard all over Freetown.
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