Officials of the U.N. appointed Sierra Leone war crimes tribunal say exiled former Liberian leader is deeply involved with al Qaeda, and believes West Africa can be turned into another Afghanistan.Question: Are we looking for OBL on the right continent???
Briefing a closed session of the Security Council Tuesday, chief court investigator Alan White said he had turned up evidence of Mr. Taylor's active involvement in several efforts to create turmoil in the region, including last January's attempt to assassinate Guinean President Lansana Conte.
"In November, we started learning about a plot that Charles Taylor and others in the region were trying to engage in destabilizing the region. In particular Guinea… We reported it in November, and we reported it in December in January it went down exactly the way our sources had reported it was going to occur, and that is on January 19th the assassination attempt on president Conte," he said.
Mr. White said those sources have advised him that another attempt on President Conte's life is being planned.
Taylor is yet another one of those dictators that needed the Saddam treatment long before he got it... Is he still a player for al Qaeda? Who knows, but it seems clear that the groundwork for operations in Africa was laid under his watch and with his supervision.
11:00AM Update
I cross-posted this over at The Jawa Report and it illicited an interesting comment from one of the regulars...Their M.O. is revealed time and time again with every area of the world they try to take over and impose sharia law on. Ignorance is the key. Get 'em while they don't know any better, where the illiteracy rate is high and the government is shaky, take over by force and then move in and start the indoctrination process to create armies for Allah. They're like the Borg.True enough. Their perspective does seem to be "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." ...or beheaded...whichever comes first.
