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Top al-Qaeda terrorists were sheltered by former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor while they built up a war chest from trading in diamonds, United Nations prosecutors claim. Among those who found refuge in the West African state was Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, arrested 10 days ago in Pakistan in an anti-terror swoop that also netted two South Africans, Dr Faroz Ganchi and Zubair Ishmael. Ghailani, who had a $25 million bounty on his head, hid out in Liberian military camps from late 1998 until shortly before Taylor was forced to step down a year ago, according to the UN. American authorities had no idea where he was after the bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which he masterminded, until the day-long gun battle on July 25 in the Pakistani city of Gujrat between security forces and an al-Qaeda cell that included women and children. The two South Africans, whose families say they were in Pakistan on a hiking holiday, were among those rounded up. While intelligence agencies in the US, Britain, Pakistan and South Africa are playing their cards close to their chests over the most recent crackdown on suspected terrorists, details are emerging of a global operation that was launched in the middle of May by America's CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)... (This Day) 
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