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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Is Ex-Taylor aide Plotting Attacks in Liberia?

Charles Taylor is the warlord the USA managed to kick out of Liberia a few years ago. Now one of his chief bad actors is threatening retaliation against Liberia:
Benjamin Yeaten, Taylor's former chief of staff and one of his most feared fighters, is believed to be armed, somewhere in West Africa and planning to return to Liberia to destabilize it, Defense Minister Brownie Samukai said.

"The government of Liberia has intelligence reports that Benjamin Yeaten is planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Liberia," Samukai told Reuters. [Read the whole article.]
Let us hope the world community, or at least the USA, can prevent this scumbag from wreaking any harm.