(NOTE: This entry guest blogged by jaime)
In a stunning piece of journalism, The Boston Globe has uncovered a long history of ties between former Liberian dictator and U.S. ally, Charles Taylor.
American intelligence and United Nations investigators had detailed many meetings with Al Qaeda operatives and Taylor’s government even after September 11, 2001. Some in the U.S. even considered taking action.
Liberia’s big business, diamonds, were a top earner for Al Qaeda and their various acts of terrorism.
These revelation are stunning enough, but what is even more appalling is the not just fact that Mr. Taylor was on the C.I.A. payroll, or that it took a great public outcry to get him removed from his post as President of Liberia, or that Christian Pharisee/ Mullah Pat Robertson derided the outcry against his blood money partner because President Bush was ‘undermining a Christian, Baptist president to bring in Muslim rebels’, no…
The Terror Warriors in the Bush adminstration pledged to dismantle the terrorists and the nations that harbor them in September, yet ignored the CIA asset that funded the terrorists and the nation that harbored them. So, Mr. President? What happens when a Dictator is both with us AND against us?
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