Doug Farah in today's Washington Post on Charles Taylor: "A Protected Friend of Terrorism"
By Andrew Cochran
Today's Washington Post (free registration) includes an op-ed by Contributing Expert Doug Farah on the inaction by the Bush Administration against Charles Taylor, the former dictator of Liberia and indicted war criminal whom Doug also describes as "an abettor of al Qaeda and Hezbollah." Taylor will escape prosecution for his crimes unless the U.S. soon takes the lead in his extradition from Nigeria to Sierra Leone, where a special court awaits. The premier expert in the U.S. on Taylor's atrocities and his ties to terrorists, Doug has posted on this issue here and on his own site, which I encourage you to visit. An excerpt from today's op-ed on Taylor's brutality and alliances:
"Taylor's were brutal, vicious crimes. For more than a decade he presided over forces that murdered, raped and mutilated children; they also abducted children to use them as cannon fodder. He created "Small Boys Units" made up of specially trained children who, while high on amphetamines, were used to raze villages and murder civilians. He trained and supplied the Revolutionary United Front in neighboring Sierra Leone, whose signature atrocity was hacking off the arms, legs and ears of civilians, many of them children. Taylor also hosted diamond buyers from al Qaeda and Hezbollah for several years, allowing the two designated terrorist groups to earn and hide their wealth in an asset that is untraceable and easily convertible to cash."
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