Scumbags Unite!: Pat Robertson was Charles Taylor's Man in Washington?

GeoffP · Feb 10, 2010

Throwing poop or telling it like it is?

Charles Taylor: Pat Robertson was my man in Washington

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, testifying in his own war crimes trial today, said that the American conservative evangelist Pat Robertson was awarded a Liberian gold-mining concession in 1999 and subsequently offered to lobby the Bush administration to support his government.

The revelations came in the midst of a U.N.-backed trial of Taylor at The Hague on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity during Sierra Leone's 1990s civil war. Taylor is accused of directing a Sierra Leone rebel group, the United Revolutionary Front (RUF), in a campaign aimed at securing access to the country's diamond mines. The rebel movement stands accused of committing mass atrocities in the late 1990s in the West African country, including the mutilation of thousands of civilians.

The international prosecutors contend that Taylor offered concessions to Western individuals in exchange for lobbying work aimed at enhancing his image in the United States. The prosecution maintains that Taylor also spent $2.6 million on lobbying firms and public relations outfits in the hopes of influencing the policies of former President Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

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joepistole · Feb 10, 2010

An interesting story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taylor_(Liberia)

Robertson apparently used his ministries planes in his mining ventures.

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