The not so Special Court for Sierra Leone
New Internationalism (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The trial of Charles Taylor has left an unhappy judicial legacy, argues *Sulakshana Gupta*.
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Coocoo Dennis' Alleged War Exploits Denied
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Lead prosecutor and American lawyer Brenda Hollis Thursday bombarded former president Charles Taylor with series of unstoppable questions regarding alleged atrocities of one of his Generals - General Coocoo Dennis.
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Rebel, President, CIA Spy
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Following his claims that the US plotted against him for regime change, Mr. Charles Taylor Monday admitted that he maintained links with the US Central Intelligence Agency that he established during the formative stages of his rebellion.
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Charles Taylor & Jurger Habermas on Religion in the Public Square
Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Check out the Immanent Frame for a link to the audio.
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Liberia: Former Liberian president Charles Taylor says foreign journalists were trying to assassinate him
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor says he jailed foreign journalists because they were trying to assassinate him, not because they were investigating his alleged involvement with diamond smuggling in Sierra Leone. Mr. Taylor is facing an 11-count indictment of crimes against humanity before a U.N. special court in The Hague.While president of Liberia, Charles Taylor says a foreign
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Liberia: Prosecution Says Taylor Was 'Not Honest' With UN Panel
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Charles Taylor was "not honest" with the United Nations Panel of Experts set up to investigate his alleged dealings with Sierra Leonean rebels, prosecutors told the Special Court for Sierra Leone today during cross-examination of the accused former Liberian president.
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Taylor Denies Supporting Plans to Attack Sierra Leone
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Charles Taylor did not support plans to attack Sierra Leone while he was in Libya, the accused former Liberian president told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today while being cross-examined by the prosecution.
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Killed in Crossfire, Taylor Claims
All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The five American Catholic nuns widely believed to have been abused and brutally killed as National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) rebels advanced on Monrovia in their 1992 Operation Octopus were killed in crossfire and not deliberately by his fighters, Mr. Charles Taylor, as commander of the NPFL at the time, has claimed.
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UPDATE 1-Charles Taylor sees year ahead of view
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
LONDON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - British insurance consultancy Charles Taylor expects to beat full-year forecasts by a significant amount after trading over the last four months was driven by strong performances from its adjusting and insurance run-off units.
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Liberia's Charles Taylor & the CIA
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
" ... Mr. Taylor denied suggestions that he was an agent of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He admitted, however, that his rebel group, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), exchanged information with the CIA. ... 'The government of Liberia associated in so many ways in exchange of information with the CIA. Throughout my presidency, an agency of my government collaborated...
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"If you say so, dear."
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
By Charles Taylor The New Yorker used to be in the habit of sending someone to screenings along with their movie critics for the purposes of fact checking. Anthony Lane's latest piece of cocktail chat —it's Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces he's discussing between sips of his martini this week—suggests that tough times at Condé Nast may have led to an abandonment of the practice....
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Liberia: Prosecution Reads Statements By Other Leaders on Taylor
All Africa (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Prosecutors spent much of today's cross-examination of former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, reading out statements by other West African leaders condemning Mr. Taylor Liberian rebel group for crimes committed against Liberians and members of international humanitarian agencies, including American Catholic nuns and peacekeepers during his country's civil war.
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Merleau-Ponty + traditional epistemology
philosophy.com (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
I've dug into the Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty earlier over at conversations, where I'd briefly explored the Introduction. In the first chapter Charles Taylor argues that Merleau Ponty helped us to break out of classical or representational epistemology's picture of our grasp of the world\that heldus captive. He says: There are many versions of this theory, but the central idea in this picture,...
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Judges Give Taylor's Prosecutors Time to 'Rearrange Strategies'
All Africa (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Charles Taylor's testimony was cut short for the second day in a row, as prosecutors asked for more time to "rearrange strategies" for the cross-examination of the former Liberian president on trial for his alleged role in crimes committed during Sierra Leone's brutal conflict.
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No Reason to Lie -Prosecution Tells Witness Taylor
All Africa (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Prosecutors told Charles Taylor that he had "reason to lie" during his four months of testimony which he had spent rebutting charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his alleged role in crimes during Sierra Leone's brutal conflict -- and that he needed to prepare to be "honest" in cross-examination, which started today in The Hague.