liberia: ex-leader stole $3 million as he left, U.N. aide says

Charles G. Taylor, who was forced out as president of Liberia on August 11 and flew to exile in Nigeria, took with him $3 million donated for disarming and demobilizing thousands of armed combatants, a senior United Nations official says. The sum is roughly equal to six months of current government revenues in Liberia, by any measure one of the poorest nations on earth.