The War Department wanted to keep the operation secret.

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The huge Firestone plantation east of the capital,Monrovia, remains the world's largest single natural rubber operation and was one of the first businesses to reopen after Liberia's long civil war.

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Bush said the military operation in Afghanistan was but the first phase in the war on terrorism and the operation will not end until the world is not only safer, but better.

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Following the war, he ran Operation Provide Comfort, the U.S. military effort to help fleeing Kurds in northern Iraq.

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Under Tony Blair, the British government was intent on securing Libyan co-operation in the war on terror after the country renounced its programme of weapons of mass destruction in 2003.

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