Taylor protests peak as US deliberates

HUNDREDS of people demonstrated in Liberia’s capital yesterday in an unprecedented show of opposition to President Charles Taylor, a day after President Bush told him to leave the country.

“Taylor must go” and “No more Taylor, we want Bush,” chanted more than 400 people outside the US embassy as American Marines in flak jackets and helmets kept watch from behind sandbagged posts on the roof.

Across the battered coastal capital, a few hundred Taylor supporters gathered in a football stadium to show their support for a former warlord who never looked so vulnerable.