More guns, please

President Charles Taylor in March 2003 told the press that Liberia had 'ordered arms'. Defence Minister Daniel Chea subsequently provided a 'comprehensive listing of military hardware and materials that were imported for self-defence purposes'. These weapons are almost identical to those documented by the United Nations Panel on Liberia.

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Charles Taylor, Daniel Chea, Moldovan, Equatorial Guinean, Nigerian, Yugoslavia, Slobodan Tesic, Emmanuel Shaw, Congo-Kinshasa, British

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