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U.S. officials moved yesterday to douse the raging controversy over an N280 million ($2 million) reward that it allegedly offered for the capture of erstwhile President Charles Taylor of Liberia. The officials denied that the U.S. ever offered $2 million for the capture of Taylor. It was gathered yesterday, however, that the police had beefed up security around Taylor in Calabar. The controversy over the $2 million prize was sparked by reports claiming the inclusion of a reward for the capture of "an indictee of the special court for Sierra Leone" in a bill approving an $87 billion aid package for Iraq and Afghanistan. The Federal Government considered "an indictee of the special court for Sierra Leone" to refer to Taylor, thus taking umbrage at the U.S. position. The government said that since Taylor was under its custody, the U.S. could not perpetrate what bordered on state-sponsored terrorism to capture him. But in an interview with The Guardian yesterday, a U.S. (Guardian) |
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