Charles TaylorThe former President-for-Life of Liberia, of whom the best that could be said was that he wasn't quite as horrible as Prince Johnson, at least not usually.
is cooling his 64-year old heels at The Hague awaiting a verdict on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The former Liberian president wears the dubious badge of being the first African head of state to be hauled before the
International Criminal Court.... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ...
He faces life in the cooler if found guilty this April. Taylor pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to 11 charges of murder, rape and deploying child soldier during the Sierra Leone civil war.
He also allegedly helped rebels in exchange for looted "blood diamonds."
But recent reports by the Boston Globe newspaper are that the father of Chuckie Taylor doubled as a spy for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
How did the confessions emerge after quarter century? Well, in 2006, the Boston Globe newspaper filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act for information of persistent allegations that Taylor worked for the CIA.
His brief was to gather intelligence on the late Libyan strongman Muammar Qadaffy
...Custodian of Wheelus AFB for 42 long years until he was ejected from the gene pool by his indignant citizens...
, specifically, his role in the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland, his sponsorship of guerrillas across Africa, and the broader issues of Russian activities and arms trade in the continent.
Responding to the Globe request, The Defence Intelligence Agency, the spy arm of the Pentagon confirmed that Taylor worked closely with CIA agents in the early 1980s.