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Marines to liberia { August 6 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3230043 http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3230043 Small Number of U.S. Troops Into Liberia - Officials Wed August 6, 2003 09:25 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is sending a small number of Marines into Liberia from ships offshore to provide logistical support for West African military peacekeepers in the civil war-torn African nation, U.S. defense officials said on Wednesday. A "liaison element," initially composed of six to 10 Marines, will be sent into the capital of Monrovia on orders from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, according to the officials, who asked not to be identified. They said the contingent, which could grow to up to 20 troops, will work with a multinational interim force of peacekeepers from the Economic Community of West African States, or ECOWAS. The troops are being sent in from a task force of about 2,300 American Marines aboard ships off the Liberian coast. "The liaison element will assist in coordination of contract logistics support as may be needed to assist ECOWAS with its force build-up," one of the defense officials told Reuters. "The United States remains in close coordination with the ECOWAS countries and those ECOWAS units to be assigned to the (multinational interim force)." The Marine contingent was ordered to the waters off Liberia to stand by for any support ordered by President Bush, although the administration is reluctant to directly involve American forces, which are already stretched thin by commitments in Iraq, Afghanistan and other global missions.

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