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Africa: Subsaharan
Liberia's Taylor gave aid to Qaeda
2004-08-04
EFL
The senior Al Qaeda operative captured in Pakistan last week met with former Liberian president Charles Taylor in the years before and after Sept. 11, 2001, and received refuge from the former US ally while planning further terrorist operations, according to US intelligence officials and United Nations investigators.
The UN? Phef!
The officials and investigators also painted a picture of Liberia under Taylor as a haven for Al Qaeda, and raised new questions about why the United States waited so long to support Taylor's ouster and continues to refrain from using its influence to bring him before a UN war crimes tribunal.
YOUHAVEGOTTOBEJOKING! The UN is asking us--The United States--why we waited so long to do something? I.Must.Resist.Urge.To.Gouge.My.Eyes.With.Pencil.
We should use our influence so that Chuckles can be put on trial by Carla del Ponte sometime in ... oh, 2015 or so. Shouldn't take Carla more than four, five years to make a case.
Al Qaeda allegedly paid Taylor for protection and then joined him in the African diamond trade, raising millions of dollars for terrorist activities, according to UN war crimes documents.
They are a girl's best friend.
Posted by:Dragon Fly

#2  Perhaps we can spur the UN to open up the Oil For Food docs so we can see whomelse needs to be ousted...


*chuckle* *snort* Yeah, I know. But I kept a straight face that long, anyway. "UN opens the books..." What was I thinking?
Posted by: eLarson   2004-08-04 9:03:06 PM  

#1  This would be the three week delay incurred while the NYT decried the 14 month "Rush to War" in Iraq?

(from Mark Steyn)
Posted by: john   2004-08-04 3:40:54 PM  

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