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Photos: Charles Taylor: Liberia's feared warlord
Charles Taylor: Liberia's feared warlord – Charles Taylor, leader of the rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) waves to recruits 28 May 1990 upon seizing the port of Buchanan, 200 kms (120 miles) from the capital Monrovia.
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Charles Taylor: Liberia's feared warlord – Rebels loyal to Charles Taylor take position behind a truck in May 1990 in Monrovia.
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Charles Taylor: Liberia's feared warlord – A masked rebel loyal to warlord Charles Taylor patrols in the streets of Monrovia in August 1990.
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Charles Taylor: Liberia's feared warlord – Liberian President Charles Taylor, right, chats to Nigerian counterpart Olusegun Obasanjo during a symbolic bonfire to destroy weapons in Monrovia in July 1999.
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Liberia child – A child soldier wearing a teddy bear backpack points his gun at a photographer in a street of Monrovia in June 2003.
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Charles Taylor: Liberia's feared warlord – Charles Taylor is comforted by his wife, Jewel Howard-Taylor, at the funeral of his mother in July 2003 in Monrovia.
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Charles Taylor: Liberia's feared warlord – Charles Taylor, left, sits beside Liberia's new President Moses Zeh Blah during a swearing-in ceremony in Monrovia in August 2003.
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Charles Taylor: Liberia's feared warlord – Charles Taylor waves as he boards a Nigerian government plane in Liberia August 2003 that will take him into exile.
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