Nigeria Prepares Home in Exile for Taylor

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Nigeria Prepares Home in Exile for Taylor

While Nigeria readies a jungle home in exile for warlord-president Charles Taylor, many worry he will keep up troublemaking from abroad and return to fight another day.

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While Nigeria readies a jungle home in exile for warlord-president Charles Taylor, many worry he will keep up troublemaking from abroad and return to fight another day.

Nigeria, the leading power of West Africa, has offered asylum to Taylor and Taylor, wanted by a U.N.-backed war-crimes court in neighboring Sierra Leone, says he'll take it.

Nigerian officials privately insist their security forces would closely monitor Taylor to prevent him from meddling in Liberian politics.

Three houses have been set aside for Taylor and his entourage in the sleepy southeastern jungle city of Calabar far from two other former Liberian warlords already living in other Nigerian cities.

A U.N. travel ban on Taylor, and an international arrest warrant, are also likely to limit his travel if and when he settles in Nigeria

Nigerians worry that if Taylor ends up in Nigeria, he could try to use Africa's economic and military superpower as a base to foment regional conflicts.

Nigeria has no extradition laws. And it has offered refuge to controversial figures before. Two Liberians ex-warlords Prince Johnson and Roosevelt Johnson already live in the cities of Lagos and Jos, respectively.

Nigeria hosted Somali President Mohammed Siad Barre for several years after he was ousted by warlords in 1991.

Source: Agencies

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