This is short, but I wanted to share...saw it originally on LGF where Charles Johnson front paged it
Quote after the flip...
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, testifying in his own war crimes trial today, 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.
Full Article here.
And, just in case any of you were wondering, this is the same Pat Robertson who ran for President of the United States as a Republican. Oh, that this story gets legs, and that it implicates even more GOP fuckheads.
I'm just sorry Sarah Barrahcougar and Pat Robertson aren't joined at the hip.