With Taylor weakened, a group of rebels, who were principally Muslim, began a civil war using neighboring Guinea as a staging area. The United States gave $3 million to help the army of Guinea, and I have on good authority that at least two containers of arms were sent by the United States to the port of Monrovia in Liberia to be used by the rebels against Taylor.
I'm not following this. If we are sending arms to the rebels who are fighting out of Guinea, why would we ship the arms to Monrovia which, even today, is held by Taylor?