EIGHT people including a Briton, an Australian and a Lebanese were arrested in Liberia on Wednesday for “collaborating” with Sierra Leonean rebels. The arrests occurred at the offices of a local company, Red Deer International, in the capital, Monrovia. The company’s general manager, Richard Ratcliffe, a British national, was among those arrested. Military uniforms, communication equipment and documents were reportedly seized at the office. The Sierra Leonean rebels, the Revolutionary United Front have been largely routed from the country’s capital, Freetown, by the Nigerian-led Ecomog intervention force who has claimed, along with the United States and Britain, that Liberia has been assisting the rebels.
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