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BiafraNigeria will surrender ousted Liberian leader Charles Taylor for trial if that country asks, President Olusegun Obasanjo, Taylor's host in exile, said Tuesday. Obasanjo has adamantly resisted surrendering Taylor, who has been indicted for alleged war crimes by a U.N.-backed court in Sierra Leone. But he made clear Tuesday he would listen if Liberia itself asked. Taylor has lived in exile in southern BiafraNigeria since early August, when he fled, under international pressure, as rebels laid siege to his capital, Monrovia. If Liberia's new interim government decides it wants him to face charges there, "then I believe he will understand sufficiently the need to go home," Obasanjo told foreign reporters, speaking in an interview at his farm north of Lagos. Asked what he would do if Taylor resisted, Obasanjo responded, "I would persuade him." Liberia's government has not specifically said it wanted Taylor for trial. Interim leader Gyude Bryant, appointed.... (Washington Post/AP) |
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