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...people dead and thousands more raped and maimed. Following the likes of Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein, Taylor is the latest strongman to face a reckoning in a court of law: after his capture in Nigeria, he was delivered to the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone, which has charged him on 11 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, sexual slavery and mutilations--atrocities allegedly carried out by Taylor loyalists with his knowledge during Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war. The court has asked the Netherlands to be host to Taylor's trial because of concerns that...
Still, Taylor very nearly slipped away. On March 25, Obasanjo, under pressure himself from the U.S., finally agreed to extradite Taylor. Two days later, as Nigeria and Liberia argued over who was responsible for transporting the former warlord to Sierra Leone, Taylor disappeared. Police sources in Calabar told TIME they believe Taylor's vanishing act was instigated by some of his supporters with the connivance of Nigerian officials, who wanted to relieve themselves of responsibility for arresting Taylor. Nigerian authorities arrested 22 police officers guarding his residence for "misconduct, dereliction of duty and offenses prejudicial to discipline," and Obasanjo...
...that ECOWAS should go into the peacekeeping business. To achieve a cease-fire in Liberia and supervise free elections, they created a West African force, the Economic Community Monitoring Group. Yet when the time came to pass out white ECOMOG helmets, only five countries sent troops: Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Gambia...
...Kentucky, Rogers is an outspoken advocate of regulating carbon and imposing a price on emissions. His position makes him a renegade within his industry, which officially opposes any regulatory scheme that would force power companies to cut carbon emissions. It makes Rogers more likely to be invited to Sierra Club headquarters than to the White House, given that President Bush hasn't called for anything more stringent than voluntary cuts in greenhouse gases...
...EXTRADITION AGREED. CHARLES TAYLOR, 58, former Liberian President; from Nigeria. Taylor was forced into exile in 2003 as part of a deal to end Liberia's civil war but is said to have breached the terms by meddling in Liberian politics. A war-crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone accuses him of fueling a civil war in that country. Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has said she will send Taylor to Sierra Leone...