Taylor Taken To Sierra Leone To Face War Crimes Tribunal
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) – Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, captured on the run in Nigeria with his family and sacks full of cash, was flown to Sierra Leone on Wednesday to face trial on war crimes charges.
Taylor was captured Tuesday night by security forces in the far northeastern border town of Gamboru, in Borno State, nearly 600 miles from the villa in southern Calabar from which he reportedly disappeared Monday night, Information Minister Frank Nweke said in a statement. He was trying to cross the border into Cameroon.
Taylor was flown to the Liberian capital Wednesday and then immediately taken by U.N. helicopter to Sierra Leone, where a U.N.-backed tribunal will try him on war crimes charges, witnesses said.
