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In December 1989 Taylor launched an armed uprising from [[Côte d'Ivoire]]. His forces, known as the [[National Patriotic Front of Liberia]] (NPFL), soon controlled most of the country. Then-president [[Samuel Doe]] was overthrown, and tortured to death the following year by [[Yormie Johnson|Prince Johnson]], at that time an ally of Taylor. Doe's fall led to the [[politics|political]] fragmentation of the country into violent factionalism. In mid-1990, Prince Johnson's supporters split from Taylor's group and captured Monrovia for themselves, depriving Taylor of outright victory.

 

== Early Years ==

 

He was briefly arrested in 1979 after threatening to take over the Liberian [[diplomat]]ic mission in [[New York City|New York]] and was accused of embezzling roughly $900,000 as head of Liberia's General Services Administration. On [[May 24]], [[1984]], two [[United States Marshals Service|US Deputy Marshal]]s arrested Taylor in [[Somerville, Massachusetts]], on a warrant for extradition to face charges of embezzling $922,000 of government funds, intended for machinery parts, into a New York bank account. Citing a fear of assassination by Liberian agents, it was announced by Taylor's lawyer, former US Attorney General [[Ramsey Clark]], that Taylor would fight extradition from the safety of jail. He was detained in a House of Corrections in [[Plymouth, Massachusetts]]. On Sunday, [[September 15]], [[1985]], sometime around 8:30 pm, Taylor and four other inmates escaped from the jail by sawing through a bar covering a window in an unused laundry room. After dropping 12 feet to the ground by means of a knotted sheet, the five inmates climbed a fence. Shortly thereafter, Taylor and two other escapees were met at nearby Jordan Hospital by Taylor's wife, Enid Taylor, and Taylor's sister-in-law, Lucia Holmes Toweh. A getaway car was driven to [[Staten Island]], where Taylor then disappeared. The first escapee to be caught was apprehended on [[September 18]] in [[Brockton, Massachusetts]]; eventually all four of Taylor's fellow escapees would be tracked down, and Enid Taylor and Lucia Holmes Toweh were ordered held without bail on [[September 23]] for driving the getaway car. Taylor managed to flee the United States and shortly thereafter ended up in Libya where he underwent guerilla training under [[Muammar Qaddafi]]. Eventually he left Libya and used the training he gained there to begin a civil war in [[Liberia]].

During his absence for the peace talks in Ghana, it is alleged that the US urged the [[vice president]], [[Moses Blah]], to seize power. Upon his return, Taylor briefly dismissed Blah from his post, only to reinstate him a few days later. Meanwhile, the rebel group LURD initiated a siege of Monrovia, and several bloody battles were fought as Taylor's forces defeated rebel attempts to capture the city. The pressure on Taylor increased further as [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[George W. Bush]] stated that Taylor "must leave Liberia" twice in July 2003.

 

 

On [[August 10]], Charles Taylor appeared on national television in Liberia to announce that he would resign the following day and hand power to the nation's vice president, Moses Blah. He harshly criticized the United States in his [[farewell address]], saying that the Bush administration's insistence that he leave the country was a foolish policy that would hurt Liberia.

 

==Disappearance and arrest==

 

On [[March 29]], [[2006]], Taylor tried to cross the border into [[Cameroon]], but was arrested by the security forces in the border town of [[Gamboru]] in northeastern [[Nigeria]]. Guarded by Irish UN soldiers, he was put on a plane bound for [[Liberia]] and arrived in [[Monrovia]] shortly after 4:30 pm (1630 GMT). Taylor was immediately transferred onto a [[UN]] helicopter headed for [[Freetown]], [[Sierra Leone]].

 

Only days after Taylor's arrest, his son [[Charles McArthur Emmanuel]], known as Charles "Chuckie" Taylor Jr. was arrested in [[Miami]], charged with passport fraud. [http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1505211]

 

==Trial in Sierra Leone==

 

==Taylor and Kilari Anand Paul==

 

 

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