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A yound girl wearing an American flag headscarf demonstrates outside the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia Monday, June 30, 2003. The United States is being called to the rescue of Liberia - yanked by old bonds most Americans never knew the United States had. The two nations have had economic and strategic ties dating back to 1822, when James Monroe dispatched soldiers to escort ashore the first freed American slaves, who founded the nation with a U.S.-style constitution. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Ben Curtis)