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...first witness in the long-postponed trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor wasn't invited to address the alleged atrocities that engendered war crimes charges, to which Taylor has pleaded innocent. Instead, he came to talk about "conflict" or "blood" diamonds. The heart of the prosecution's case is that Taylor terrorized the people of neighboring Sierra Leone in order to appropriate its diamond wealth for his own ends. Taylor is being tried on 11 counts in a special court in The Hague, including murder, rape, mutilation, and conscripting child soldiers in neighboring Sierra Leone...
...former Liberian president looked relaxed as Canadian diamond expert Ian Smillie - one of the authors of a U.N. reports that accuses Taylor of being a gun smuggler - took the stand and told judges why he believed Taylor needed diamonds so badly. "They're very small, they're high value, they're easy to move [and] historically they've held their price very well," explained Smillie. "In the 1990s, the period we're talking about, they were an alternative to hard currency in countries where there was no hard currency or where people wanted to hide the movement of money...
Smillie testified that Sierra Leone has far more "and better quality" diamonds than Liberia. He said that when he met with Taylor in October 2000 as part of the U.N. investigation, Taylor told him that diamonds obtained by the Sierra Leone RUF militia, which Taylor is accused of supporting, probably came through Liberia, but that the President claimed to have had "no control" over the flow of illegal gems. Smillie said Taylor also told him that that "Liberia's name was misused" by diamond-smugglers. In the late 1990s, large numbers of diamonds sold in Antwerp, Belgium, were certified...
...against No. 18 Quinnipiac in a 3-3 tie. The Crimson struggled early in its battle against the Bobcats (10-5-3, 3-3-3 ECAC) at the TD Banknorth Sports Center. “Today we just kind of came out flat,” co-captain Mike Taylor said. “I don’t know if it was the bus legs [from] traveling or whatever, but we definitely need to improve our start. We were a little sloppy and just didn’t have that much energy in the first period...
...that frigid day in Hanover, Dartmouth seemed an easy pick—its star captain, Ashley Taylor ‘07, would go on to win Ivy Player of the Year honors, and Harvard had recorded only two wins in its non-conference schedule. But the Crimson got a then-career-high 22 points from gutsy senior Lindsay Hallion, who shook off illness to lead Harvard to a come-from-behind 71-68 victory that jump-started its run to the league title...