"I want to believe that with the signing of this agreement today, Liberia will never be plunged into

"I want to believe that with the signing of this agreement today, Liberia will never be plunged into another spiral of violence in the quest for political power, or under the false pretense of liberating the people."
Nigerian Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar
Chief mediator in the talks leading up to a peace deal in Liberia.
"Without local informants coming up ... we couldn't do our job. This is Vietnam with a desert. We don't know what the bad guys look like. ... We don't speak the language, so we rely on someone coming forward."
Capt. Dan Hull
A battalion intelligence officer in Iraq.