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Taylor's Last Stand.(Liberia's Charles Taylor set to flee the country)
The headquarters of Liberia's two main intelligence agencies look like the other government buildings in downtown Monrovia: they're falling apart. Still, they were a center of attention in the waning days of Charles Taylor's disastrous regime. Apparently trying to buff his brutal image just before his forced departure, Taylor ordered the release of at least 50 political prisoners--none ever formally charged with crimes--held in the complex. Some who staggered out of the complex, free men again, loudly praised Jesus and the International Committee of the Red Cross for keeping them alive. Others were speechless: Mohammed Sharif, 25, became catatonic after being tortured ...
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