Operation Assured Response was a non-combatant evacuation operation in Liberia carried out by

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in 1996. In April 1996, in response to skirmishes in

Monrovia Monrovia () is the capital city of the West African country of Liberia. Founded in 1822, it is located on Cape Mesurado on the Atlantic coast and as of the 2008 census had 1,010,970 residents, home to 29% of Liberia’s total population. As th ...

between supporters of Charles Talyor and

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then

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made an

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for United States armed forces to evacuate United States citizens and citizens not of Liberia. Clinton explained his executive order in a letter sent April 11, 1996 to then Representatives House speaker Newt Gingrich.

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