Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has written a letter to Nigeria requesting the extradition of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, an aide to Taylor says. Taylor, who is indicted by a United Nations-backed court in Sierra Leone for war crimes, has been living in Nigeria since 2003 when he was offered asylum as part of a deal to end 14 years of civil war in Liberia. "It is a fact that she (Johnson-Sirleaf) requested the extradition of the former president," Sylvester Paasewe, an aide to Taylor in Nigeria's south-eastern city of Calabar, told Reuters. "I know that a letter has been transmitted here." It was unclear whether the letter requested Taylor be extradited to Liberia or to the tribunal in Sierra Leone. Mr Paasewe says the rules of Taylor's asylum in Nigeria precluded a trial for Taylor and accused the United States of being behind the extradition request.
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