>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 05/12/00 04:32PM >>>
[the headline in the print edition is blunter: "Diamonds Lie Behind
Africa Bloodshed: U.S., U.K. Sought to Curb Rebels In Sierra Leone]
Wall Street Journal - May 12, 2000
Diamonds Appear to Be at Center Of Widening Sierra Leone Crisis
By ROBERT BLOCK Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- What appears to lie behind the breakdown of the peace process in Sierra Leone and the return of chaos to West Africa is U.S. and British determination to wrest control of Sierra Leone's rich diamond mining areas from Revolutionary United Front rebels.
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CB: I wonder if the WSJ knows that oil had nothing to do with the bloodshed by US/UK in Yugoslavia recently.