The son of warlord Charles Taylor who was hiding out in Trinidad and Tobago before being held in the United States last week may be connected to the Al Qaeda network. The Daily Express understands that the Liberian Human Rights and Refugee Welfare Organisation based in the US has notified the US Justice Department through a letter to hold Charles 'Chuckie' Taylor Jr for more investigation, unrelated to the passport fraud for which he has been arrested and detained in Miami.Taylor Jr was held at the Miami International Airport on Thursday night with a fraudulent US passport he had obtained from the US Embassy in Trinidad. He had lied about his father's identity in obtaining the passport. He had been hiding out in Trinidad for the last three years after sneaking into the country from Virginia.
The LIHRRWO has informed the United States government it has information from Monrovia that Chuckie, a US citizen, had close connections with Arabs suspected to be Al Qaeda members and who were in diamond deals with his father, Charles Taylor, who is now before a war crimes court in Sierra Leone. Soon after the 9/11 terror attacks, Taylor Jr had been seen giving out Osama Bin Laden shirts in the United States and had been heard singing the wanted terrorist's praises.