[FT] Truth is stranger than the Tuffleyverse

http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/05/12/leone5_12.a.tm/index.html

What can I say? It's a typical SG scenario come to life, but with gratuitous

> Alan and Carmel Brain wrote:

[snip link to Sierra Leone article]

> What can I say? It's a typical SG scenario come to life, but with

...and the only real difference between this and the struggles going on in the
highlands of Myanmar (former Burma), Somalia, Colombia... etc is the main
resource they're fighting for (diamonds rather than drugs) and the level of
violence against the civilian population.

There are lots of this stuff going on all over the. Sierra Leone is where the
newsies' attention is directed this week; next week it'll be
some other conflict :-(

From: "Oerjan Ohlson" <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com>