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The UN Security Council authorized the transfer Friday of former Liberian President Charles Taylor to an international tribunal that will try him for war crimes.
Taylor is now in the custody of a special UN court in Sierra Leone, where he pleaded innocent in April to charges stemming from that nation’s 1991-2002 civil war.
The Special Court in Sierra Leone requested that the trial be moved to The Hague for fear a man who once was among the region’s most feared warlords could still spark unrest in West Africa.
