NEWS SEARCH ANALYSIS INSIGHT

360° SearchNetwork Hot Spots Trends

Advanced Search Options >>

Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:13 AM

Charles Taylor

Type: Person

Name: Charles Taylor (Charles Ghankay Taylo)

Title: Former President

Date of Birth: 28/01/1948

Place of Birth: Arthington, a city near Monrovia

Nationality: Liberia

Fact Sheet: Biography for Charles Taylor

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Central Intelligence Agency

Liberia: Rebel, President, CIA Spy

Following his claims that the US plotted against him for regime change, Mr. Charles Taylor Monday admitted that he maintained links with the US Central Intelligence Agency that he established during the formative stages of his rebellion. 'The organization ... [AllAfrica.com - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Central Intelligence Agency, Liberia, Cross-examination, Nigeria, Charles Taylor

First Reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

A womans perspective on sexual harassment

We, women, live in a world of unknown forces pulling, shoving and bruising us not only physically but mentally. We feel utter disgust when a strange male ogles at us. We live in a world of unknown hands grappling our body, unknown eyes stripping us naked. ... [The Hindu - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Sexual harassment, Charles Taylor, Education, Salvage, Hatred

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Charles Taylor Consulting profits to exceed forecasts

Business Financial Newswire - Charles Taylor Consulting expects full year pre-tax profits to exceed forecasts significantly.It says this is due to the markedly better than anticipated performance of the insurance companies run-off division.Earnings per ... [Business Financial Newswire - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Charles Taylor, Earnings Per Share, Taxes

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Sierra Leone tribunal hands over prison

FREETOWN (AFP) - As a first step towards winding up its presence in Sierra Leone, the UN backed Special Court on Sierra Leone on Monday turned over its jail to the government, which will make it a women's prison.Last month the court handed down its final ... [Yahoo! Canada - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Sierra Leone, Freetown (Sierra Leone), Charles Taylor, Mike Tyson, International Criminal Court

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents

Special Court for Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone: Edging Closer to End of Mandate, UN-Backed Court Hands Over Prison to Country

The United Nations-backed tribunal trying the worst acts committed during the decade-long brutal civil war in Sierra Leone today transferred its detention centre to the national prison service.The handover of the facility, which is slated to house female ... [AllAfrica.com - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Sierra Leone, Special Court for Sierra Leone, Charles Taylor, United Nations

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Dart Group PLC

Small caps round-up: Centaur Media, Charles Taylor, Chaucer...

Nov 2009 CAU - Centaur Media Latest Prices Name Price % Centaur Media 53.00p 0.00% AEA Technology 29.00p -4.92% Chaucer Holdings 46.89p -4.46% Chesnara 189.25p -0.13% Charles Taylor 225.25p +0.78% Dart Group 53.00p -3.20% FTSE 250 9,334 -1.03% FTSE 350 ... [ShareCast - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Centaur, Charles Taylor, Dart Group PLC, AEA Technology

First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 15 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

UN Prosecutors Seek to Limit Taylor's Contact With Lawyers During Cross Examination

U.N. prosecutors at the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor want to limit his access to defense lawyers during cross-examination. Taylor's lawyers say that would violate his right to counsel.Lead Prosecutor Brenda Hollis wants ... [VOA News - 11/11/2009]

Entities: Charles Taylor, Cross-examination, Richard Lussick

First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 8 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Prosecutors start grilling Taylor at U.N. trial (Reuters)

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Prosecutors challenged former Liberian President Charles Taylor over the circumstances of his departure from power as they opened their cross-examination on Tuesday at the first war crimes trial of an African leader.Taylor, 61, denies ... [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/10/2009]

Entities: Charles Taylor, Sierra Leone, The Hague, Liberia

First Reported 10/26/2009 - Updated 10/27/2009 - 6 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

UN-backed court & final rulings in Sierra Leone

The United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) has upheld the convictions and sentences passed on three former rebels in the last judgment by the tribunal to be handed down in the West African nation.The three former leaders of the rebel ... [GlobalSecurity.org - 10/27/2009]

Entities: Sierra Leone, Issa Sesay, Morris Kallon, Augustine Gbao

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 2 Documents

SD Consumers: "Banking" on Change

WASHINGTON - The President has proposed a new federal agency to oversee the practices of banks and other lenders to protect consumers from fraud. The proposal has passed the House Financial Services Committee on a party-line vote. Some South Dakota bankers ... [Public News Service - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Charles Taylor, Charitable Trust, House Financial Services Committee, Fallout, Budget Deficit

First Reported 10/24/2009 - Updated 10/24/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Sierra Leone tribunal coming to an end

Freetown, Sierra LeoneFreetown, Sierra Leone Published on : 23 October 2009 - 3:12pm | By Thijs BouwknegtFiled under:For years now, Sierra Leone has been trying to come to terms with a horrible civil war. For eleven years, doped up children armed with ... [Radio Netherlands - 10/24/2009]

Entities: Sierra Leone, Freetown (Sierra Leone), Charles Taylor, Child Soldiers, The Hague

First Reported 10/26/2009 - Updated 10/26/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

THE HAGUE : Karadzic trial to begin despite defendant's refusal to appear

The long-anticipated trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will begin on Monday despite Karadzic’s announcement that he will not be present at court, saying he needs more time to prepare his defence.AFP - Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan ... [France24 - 10/26/2009]

Entities: Radovan Karadzic, The Hague, Defendant, Vojislav Seselj

Quotes

...'He lied to the world when he said I was escaping, and he knew nothing about it,' Taylor said. "why he lied? i don't know, but as a brother and a friend, i think he ought to speak and tell the truth about it." The ex-warlord's journey to The Hague began in 2006 when Obasanjo announced that Liberia's new government was free to take their former president into...

Liberia: How Obasanjo Duped Me, By Charles Taylor [AllAfrica.com - 11/11/2009]

"international criminal justice as currently conceived is about those lesser breeds without the law. it is a civilizing process you see" Courtenay Griffiths, lead Counsel for former Liberian President Charles Taylor facetiously told ABC News last week in the lead-up to the direct examination...

BLOTTER: Liberia's Taylor Railroaded by 'Racist' Tribunal, Says Lawyer [ABC News - 10/27/2009]

...The managing director of the firm's Budapest office, Charles Taylor, said the low cost of staff gives Budapest a strong competitive advantage. "we expected budapest to remain an attractive location for international business, especially at a time when businesses are highly cost conscious" he said. Aside from low costs, Budapest did not stack up too well against other major business centres in Europe, and fell from 22nd to 25th place in...

Budapest cheap but not very cheerful, says real estate agency report [Budapest Times - 10/15/2009]

...He is accused of micromanaging that war from neighboring Liberia, and is charged with 11 counts of war crimes, plus murder, rape and mutilation. "it is quite incredible that such descriptions of me would come about" Taylor said...

Ex-Liberian President Says War Crimes Case 'Lies' [VOA News - 07/14/2009]

More Content

sort by: Date \| Relevance
A womans perspective on sexual harassment [The Hindu - 5 hours ago]
The week ahead... [Interactive Investor Articles - 11/20/2009]
Liberia: Rebel, President, CIA Spy [AllAfrica.com - 11/20/2009]
Week Ahead: Mitchells & Butlers, DS... [Digital Look - 11/20/2009]
Taylor Denies Supporting Plans to Attack Sierra... [AllAfrica.com - 11/20/2009]
Taylor Denies Jailing Journalists for Investiga... [VOA News - 11/20/2009]
Charles Taylor Consulting profits to exceed for... [Business Financial Newswire - 11/20/2009]
London Metal Exchange Appoints David Rough And ... [Mondo Visione Exchange Data - 11/19/2009]
Small caps round-up: Centaur Media, Charles Tay... [ShareCast - 11/19/2009]
Rep. Siryon Appeal Farmers - Grow More Food To ... [AllAfrica.com - 11/17/2009]
Country Hiding Kabuga, U.S. Insists [AllAfrica.com - 11/16/2009]
Sierra Leone: Edging Closer to End of Mandate, ... [AllAfrica.com - 11/16/2009]
Sierra Leone tribunal hands over prison [Yahoo! Canada - 11/16/2009]
Marching in the Czech revolution, 20 years ago [CBC - 11/13/2009]
A nobler, trickier path to justice for 9/11 \| G... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/13/2009]
Africa at war with itself [Financial Gazette - 11/13/2009]
Liberia: No Reason to Lie -Prosecution Tells Wi... [AllAfrica.com - 11/12/2009]
UN Prosecutors Seek to Limit Taylor's Contact W... [VOA News - 11/11/2009]
City OKs incentives packages [Individual.com - 11/11/2009]
Charles Taylor war crimes trial gets mixed revi... [Christian Science Monitor - 11/11/2009]
Liberia: How Obasanjo Duped Me, By Charles Taylor [AllAfrica.com - 11/11/2009]
Taylor says he was indicted as part of US 'regi... [Mail & Guardian Online - 11/11/2009]
New York Post embroiled in racism row (ABC) [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/11/2009]
Rush to create new centre for probing farm emis... [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/11/2009]
Taylor calls his indictment a US plot to get co... [Business Day - 11/11/2009]
Australian market posts modest gains on US lead... [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/11/2009]
Women should strive to inspire younger generation [The Monitor - 11/10/2009]
Prosecutors to Cross-Examine Charles Taylor [GlobalSecurity.org - 11/10/2009]
Ex-Liberian president denies supplying arms [Irish Times - 11/10/2009]
Prosecutors to grill former Liberian President ... [Times of India - 11/10/2009]

Blogs

sort by: Date \| Relevance
Lisa J. Laplante: The End of Impunity for Execu... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/19/2009] Far from the main stages of the international terror hunt a criminal trial is unfolding which could have profound consequences for the prosecution of heads ...
A nobler, trickier path to justice for 9/11 \| G... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/13/2009] Trial by jury for the September 11 suspects can mean justice is seen to be done. Yet calling for the death penalty is an errorThe US attorney general, Eric Holder, ...
Liberia: Taylor accuses Britain of transporting... [Global Voices Online - 11/10/2009] Alpha blogs about the trial of the former President of Sierra Leone: “Charles Taylor today accused Britain of transporting arms to Sierra Leone in violation of a ...
Morning Brief: North and South Korean navies ex... [FP Passport - 11/10/2009] North and South Korean navies exchange fire North and South Korean vessels exchanged fire for several minutes on the countries' disputed sea border, today. ...
Drumbeat: November 10, 2009 [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our ... - 11/10/2009] Power for U.S. From Russia’s Old Nuclear Weapons MOSCOW — What’s powering your home appliances? For about 10 percent of electricity in the United States, it’s ...

Audio/Video

sort by: Date \| Relevance
Why Won't They Just Drag Karadzic to Court? [Slate Magazine - 10/29/2009]
Liberia's Taylor answers war charges [Reuters Video: Top News - 07/14/2009]

Change Password

Log in to Silobreaker

Advanced Search Options

Charles Taylor