Report links Charles Taylor to al-Qaeda

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AFP , DAKAR, SENEGAL
Tuesday, Aug 24, 2004,Page 6

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor sold conflict diamonds to known al-Qaeda operatives that may have been used to finance the Sept. 11 attacks on the US, according to a confidential report from the UN-backed war crimes court in Sierra Leone.

"It is clear that al-Qaeda had been in west Africa since September 1998 and maintained a continuous presence in the area through 2002," said the document, produced by the office of prosecutor David Crane.

The document, gleaned from press reports, witnesses to sightings of al-Qaeda operatives in Liberia and interviews with a single, unnamed source, is the latest effort to link the global terror network to conflict diamonds mined during the civil war that ravaged the west African state for a decade.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/08/24/2003200016

HOLY PAT ROBERTSON BATMAN!

[Old and In the Way]

1. Friend of Pat Robertson.....hmmmm.

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6. Pat Robertson & Charles Taylor

Defending the Indefensible President of Liberia

In 1989, Charles Taylor seized power in Liberia. In 1997, he was elected president, but many observers said that the elections were fraudulent. Taylor is wanted in Sierra Leone as a war criminal, and most everyone agrees that he is the main impediment to peace in his own nation. So why is his biggest defender American religious leader Pat Robertson?

http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/rr/blrr_rob_taylor.htm

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7. Pat Robertson's Gold - WP

Last week's terrorist attacks brought out the worst in televangelists Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. Three days after hijacked jetliners slammed into the Pentagon, the World Trade Center and the Pennsylvania countryside, Robertson posted a statement on his Christian Broadcast Network (CBN) Web site announcing that pornography, rampant secularism, the occult, abortion, the absence of prayer in schools and insults of God "at the highest level of our government" had sent the Almighty over the edge. America was attacked, Robertson asserted, "because God Almighty is lifting His protection from us."

Appearing on CBN's "700 Club" the day before Robertson's blast, Falwell had also cut loose.

Falwell (who you may recall feared that Tinky Winky the Teletubby was gay and out to damage the moral lives of children) singled out homosexuals, supporters of abortion rights, pagans, the American Civil Liberties Union and People for the American Way as groups to blame for the Tuesday massacres. But a day later and facing a firestorm of criticism, Falwell backtracked. Labeling his own comments "insensitive, uncalled for at the time, and unnecessary as part of the comment on this destruction," Falwell said he blamed no one but the hijackers and terrorists for what happened. (Keep reading for Taylor coming up next.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A7124-2001Sep21

[Waistdeep]

2. But he made such great basketball shoes ...............

B-)

[Elwood P Dowd]

3. Don't you just love those Republican Christian Values

of Pat Robemsome.

This is old news but still, keep it coming. My mother had a friend sending Robemsome money until she read some articles about his sleazy business deals.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. Have you noticed...

Ol' Pat has been pretty quiet of late? For Pat.

[dArKeR]

5. Yes, yes I haven't thought about that lately. Why isn't the scum being

aired by the Media Whores?

[Tight_rope]

8. Yes...he did and they should kill that Traitor...but the US did release

him to the world to destroy West African countries...which is exactly what he did...I can't wait till the kill that very very very evil DEVIL....and they will.

[luaneryder]

10. Trained by SF at Ft. Bragg

Taylor is a product of US Special Ops training.

[JSJ]

9. the cadaver- ghwbush- is also linked to queda n/t

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

11. The 6 degrees of Bin Laden separation.Taylor was a friend of Robertson who

was a friend of Ralph Reed who was a friend of GWBush who was a friend of Prince Bandar who was a friend of the Bin Laden family who spawned God's right hand man Osama.

Hmmm

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. Oh come on, I can do it in less than six

Let's see

Osama ----> Taylor ---> Robertson ----> Bush

Well, that's four. Can anyone beat that? Calling Jon Stewart.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

19. Yes Osama- Bandar - Bush

[lottie244]

12. Shouldn't the US freeze Robertson's assets? Put him on a watch list?

That's exactly what we have done to individuals involved in Mulsim charities.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. 1 big difference - Robertson is on the side of God - not some idol

:eyes:

[lottie244]

14. Muslims are on the side of the same God: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob

In fact, they give God much more credance than Christians who worship Jesus or some Christians who worship Mary, the mother of Jesus.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

15. Catholic and I don't "worship " Mary and I was being sarcastic

so chill out

[DoYouEverWonder]

17. Actually they should put him in Gitmo

but Dante's seventh ring of hell will do.

[msanthrope]

18. Damn-----Karma is a bitch....

I saw the 700 Club spew on 9/11, because I was flipping channels, trying to find more news. I have had a special place in my heart for Pat Robertson, since.

So, his lovely pal, Chuck Taylor financed Al-Q?

Truth is stranger than fiction, sometimes.