Charles Taylor in the dock for war crimes

[WhiteTara]

Oh how I long for the day this headline will be for George Bush and Dick Cheney and their entire cabal.
Infamous warlord, accused blood diamond merchant and former Liberian President Charles Taylor will be in the dock today before a war crimes tribunal bent on sending a powerful message to the world’s despots that no one is above the law.

Security is tight at the Special Court in Sierra Leone, the country to which Taylor is accused of exporting his own civil war. Court officials who have received death threats and the first former African president to be charged with crimes against humanity will be protected by bullet-proof glass and dozens of UN peacekeepers from Mongolia and Ireland.

Taylor, who has repeatedly declared he is innocent, will be asked to plead to 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including sexual slavery and mutilation. Taylor is to be judged by a UN-backed tribunal established to try those seen as bearing greatest responsibility for atrocities during Sierra Leone’s 1991-2002 civil war.
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Taylor had earlier asked his spiritual adviser, Indian evangelist Kilari Anand Paul, to contact lawyers in the US and Britain, saying: “bring two attorneys. Bring them any way you can. I need somebody to take charge of this defence immediately ... (I need) to put things into motion because we have only 30 days to answer the indictment.”

Here is sounds like he heard the song "Lawyers, Guns and Money" once too often.
I hope the people of Liberia find comfort in his trial.

[Greeby]

1. While I'm doubtful that that will be Shrubco's fate

I'm hoping Pat Robertson is hauled into the witness box for some uncomfortable questions :evilgrin:

[yellowcanine]

2. Will Pat "God will smite you" Robertson be subpeoned to testify?