But everyone said he was such a good christian?

[DoYouEverWonder]

Ex-Leader Stole $100 Million From Liberia, Records Show

ONROVIA, Liberia — Charles Taylor, for six years the warlord president of Liberia, stole or diverted nearly $100 million of his country's wealth, leaving it the poorest nation on earth, according to a close review of government records, an investigation by United Nations experts and interviews with senior Liberian officials.

Mr. Taylor stole government money to buy houses, cars and sexual partners, senior members of his government said. He illegally diverted many millions in government revenues to buy weapons in defiance of an international arms embargo, fueling a futile civil war, United Nations investigators say.

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"You can safely say it was tens of millions," Alex Vines, who served on a United Nations panel of experts trying to enforce the arms embargo against Liberia. The embargo "failed miserably, with devastating human consequences," Mr. Vines said. But the United Nations investigators, who began tracing the missing millions two years ago, starting documenting that failure by following the money.

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Mr. Taylor and his allies "didn't care how many bodies they had to crawl over to get to the cash box," said Nat Richardson, a former director of Liberia's state mining company.



Gee, I wonder what Pat Robertson has to say about his good buddy now? Seems like they're peas in a pod. Despite the fact that Liberia is rich in gold and diamonds, Taylor left Liberia the poorest nation in the world. But why should that bother Robertson, after all Taylor was his business partner and a born again fundie Christian. I'm sure Robertson's god will forgive him of any wrong doing.

[rasputin1952]

1. Robertson, and his ilk...

are what Jesus despised more than anything else, hypocrites.

What makes it worse, is that they are leading others down a path, they really shouldn't go down, and I have no pity for them at all.

Robertson, Falwell, et,al are exceptionally evil people.

[nannygoat]

2. Sounds like what Robertson and his ilk are trying to do to the US n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. I was thinking the same thing

When I read the article.

In the meantime, Robertson will probably go on national TV to cry about how much money he lost in another failed private venture and that his followers just need to send him a little more of their hard earned money to get through these difficult times.