Obasanjo is scheduled to be in Washington to meet with Bush this week but when did Bush really care about a criminal dictatorship that was not related to oil? There had been reports that the security around Taylor's residence in Nigeria had been very relaxed, despite the looming war crimes charges so these charges hardly seem far fetched.
Nigerian security forces encouraged former Liberian President Charles Taylor to flee and helped him get to the Cameroon border before the same agents turned around and arrested him in a double-cross, his spiritual adviser said.
Many were suspicious when Nigeria's government announced Taylor's disappearance last week, just days after Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo reluctantly agreed to hand him over from the exile haven he had been offered under an internationally brokered peace agreement ending Liberia's 14-year civil war.
