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Operation Assured Response was a non-combatant evacuation operation[1] in Liberia carried out by United States armed forces in 1996.[2] In April 1996, in response to skirmishes in Monrovia between supporters of Charles Talyor and Roosevelt Johnson then President of the United States Bill Clinton made an executive order 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.[3]

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  1. ^ "USS Guam sails for Liberia to evacuate U.S. citizens under Operation Assured Response". United States Department of Defense. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Operation Assured Response (1996)". United States Air Force. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  3. ^ Bill Clinton (April 15, 1996). "A report on the evacuation from Liberia of private United States citizens and certain third-country nationals who have taken refuge In The U.S. Embassy compound wishing to leave" (PDF). United States Government Publishing Office. Federal government of the United States. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
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