Mon, Oct 13, 2003 - Page 7 News List

Taylor's shadow looming over Liberia

POWER STRUGGLE Although an interim government is set to take control tomorrow, the exiled former president might still have a part to play in the country's bloody drama

AFP , LAGOS

The ranks of the militia he left behind are stuffed with children and former child soldiers, brutalized by war and massacres, and with a record of rape, torture and plunder.

Now the flamboyant leader, a Baptist preacher known for his impeccable white safari suits and jaunty cane, is living in luxury in Calabar, surrounded by a substantial court and a wall of Nigerian police guards. But he may not be there for ever.

"We look forward to him coming back, but we've no plan or no intention of wanting a revolution or wanting anything terrible against the peace process," Paasewe said.

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