U.S. TROOPS NOT IN LIBERIA TO, ‘OVERTHROW’ ELLEN, ENVOY SAYS Anyone harboring or encouraging suggestions that the U.S. military is in Liberia on a mission to facilitate the overthrow of the democratically-elected government headed by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf should forget about it, according to U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, Deborah Malac. The U.S. envoy has made it emphatically clear at a news conference Monday that U.S. troops are in the country strictly to help Liberia battle the deadly and menacing Ebola outbreak and nothing more. Said Ambassador Malac: “I hope you will help us get the message out about what the role of the US military forces who are coming to Liberia actually is. Let me be very, very clear and it should be subject to no questioning or doubt. They are here to provide additional heft to the efforts that is already ongoing to fight Ebola (period)! They’re not here as a show of force; they’re not here to push against or change the government. I want to be very, very clear; everybody laughs and thinks that we’re not serious, but I know that conversation is going on out there and I want to be clear. They’re here to help us fight Ebola.” Added Ambassador Malac: “They bring additional logistic capacity. They bring greater heft and energy and ability to get things done; particularly when you have these infrastructure constraints and other things. They can move things around. I don’t want to see anywhere in any newspaper or hear on any radio station that the US military has come in because the US government has a secret plot to overthrow the government here in Liberia; that is absolutely not true. “
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 02:42:29 +0000
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