Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, testifying in his own war crimes trial today (Feb 4), said that the American conservative evangelist Pat Robertson was awarded a Liberian gold-mining concession in 1999 and subsequently offered to lobby the Bush administration to support his government.
The revelations came in the midst of a U.N.-backed trial of Taylor at The Hague on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity during Sierra Leone's 1990s civil war. Taylor is accused of directing a Sierra Leone rebel group, the United Revolutionary Front (RUF), in a campaign aimed at securing access to the country's diamond mines. The rebel movement stands accused of committing mass atrocities in the late 1990s in the West African country, including the mutilation of thousands of civilians.
Read the entire article at: Charles Taylor: Pat Robertson was my man in Washington - (Feb 4, 2010)
My notes: Pat Robertson is the host of the "700 Club," a Christian TV program that airs in the US and worldwide. He is an advocate of Christian Dominionisn (the belief that Christians have the right to rule). Not only is he a spokesman for conservatives, but he also ran to be the Republican Party's nominee in the 1988 presidential election.
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor's heinous crimes against the Liberian people were/are well documented and yet Pat Robertson claimed to have had no knowledge of those activities? The glint of gold and the possibility of making of millions ($$$) blinded Robertson's heart and caused him to sell his soul to the "devil"? Hypocrite!
"It may be a blessing in disguise. ... Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were originally under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal. Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other." –Pat Robertson, on the earthquake in Haiti that destroyed the capital and killed tens of thousands of people, Jan. 13, 2010
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