I'll fight to the last man, vows Liberian leader

Gunmen spread out on rooftops as government and rebel fighters in shorts and flip-flops traded grenade and machine-gun fire in an all-out battle for Liberia’s war-ravaged capital.

With promised peacekeepers yet to arrive, warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor has vowed to fight to the last man in Monrovia – his only remaining stronghold in the country founded more than 150 years ago by freed American slaves.