Posted on 05/24/2005 3:38:51 PM PDT by HAL9000
Al-Qaïda and Taylor destabilize West Africa
New York (the United Nations) - terrorist organization Al-Qaïda is active in West Africa and supports in particular activities of destabilization of the area to which the bast former president Charles Taylor delivers itself, affirmed Tuesday of the members of the special Court for Sierra Leone.
The principal target of these activities of destabilization is Guinea where an attempted murder of president Lansana Conte already took place last January, in which Charles Taylor was implied, Al White affirmed, principal investigator of the Court, at the time of a press conference to the head office of UNO in New York.
Predicting "a new attempt soon" against Guinea, Mr. White declared that "as long as Charles Taylor will not have been translated into justice, it will constitute a precise, and imminent danger clearly for the peace and the safety not only of Liberia but of all West Africa".
Mr. White églement affirmed that Charles Taylor was also implied in violences in the north of Ivory Coast.
The bast former president was accused of crime and war crimes against humanity by this special Court for Sierra Leone for his implication in the civil war (1991-2001) in this country close to Liberia.
Nigeria granted asylum in August 2003 to him when it was driven out capacity, estimating, in spite of an international warrant for arrest, that this measurement made it possible to support the process of peace in Liberia.
The members of the special Court realized presence of Al-Qaïda in West Africa as of their arrival in Sierra Leone in 2002, affirmed David Crane, principal prosecutor of the Court.
"Al-Qaïda is there always and Charles Taylor lodged some of his members, in particular into 1998 those which took part in the attacks against the American embassies in Tanzania and in Kenya". "We have information on activities (of Al-Qaïda) until April 2005", has it says.
"last February, Mr. Crane, Charles Taylor continued went by plane in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) where it met a man of the name of Francis Kalawalo, which its candidature for the presidential election with Liberia announced thereafter", scheduled for next October.
"According to our information, of the money was provided to support this candidature. The interesting one is that at the beginning, this money came from a bank to and was transmitted to Charles Taylor by an emissary named Mohamed Mustafa Fahil, which is related to Al-Qaïda, and this handing-over of money took place with Calabar ", the city of the south-east of Nigeria where Taylor lives in exile, Mr. Crane continued.
According to Mr. White, Mohamed Fadil is also known under the name of Mohamed Fattal. This businessman of the Middle East was located in West Africa last April, preparing to return visit to Charles Taylor in Calabar.
"Charles Taylor can receive who it wants, to call which it wants and there is no restriction on its displacements (...), it is not a prisoner in Nigeria", underlined Mr. White.
The investigator added that according to information's available to the Court, Charles Taylor "seeks to leave soon" (of Nigeria) to settle elsewhere. He indicated that Taylor could choose Guinea "if this country were to fall indeed".
The Security Council, which heard Tuesday a report/ratio of the president of the Court, judge Emmanuel Ayoola, made a statement in which it affirms the need for ensuring that all the people accused by the Court appear before him, "in order to reinforce the stability of Sierra Leone and the under-area and for putting an end to impunity".
The American Room of the representatives had already taken on May 4 to the president of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo to put a term at the political asylum granted to Charles Taylor.
John Batchelor has been talking a lot about this lately. Seemed unusual to me.
Sidenote. I remember listening to Howie Carr when he had people calling in who remembered meeting Charles Taylor when he lived in Boston. It was hilarious.
Ping.
The nightmare continues, alqaeda will control another country......
Jihad is global.
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Liberia's flag was used on ships to hide port of origin
Liberia was dirty (or still is?) with the diamond trade.
I think we took it back, or are still in the process.
Jesse Jackon had dirty connections there.
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