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US Senator’s charges draw sharp reaction

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    Recent comments by US Republican Senator Judd Gregg that Sierra Leone’s crisis would only be solved with the removal from office of Liberian President Charles Taylor has drawn sharp reactions from top Liberian officials.

    “It is a mockery for a senator from the world’s champion of democracy to be calling for the overthrow of a sovereign state that they helped to nurture,” Joe Mulbah, Liberia’s information minister, said.

    “I am surprised that he made such a statement ... it really reflects the level of his intelligence and makes highly questionable his commitment even to democracy,” Monie Captan, the Liberian Foreign Minister, was quoted as saying.

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