I have followed the trial over the last year. The Prosecution has not proven a case against Mr. Taylor at all. No documentary proof of diamonds being sold by Mr. Taylor, No documentary proof of arms being bought by Mr. Taylor or sent to the RUF. Lastly not even the RUF leaders who were on trial ever said that Mr. Taylor supported them. If this case is about Justice and not politics the verdict is clear.

Yes,Courtenay Griffiths,slow we are heading to the truth.Now you are telling Journalists in Freetown that your "Client indeed supported Foday Sankoh and the Revolutionary United Front(RUF)in their rebellion in Sierra Leone but only for 18 months". Anyway,Courtenay,you have to defend your client to the best as your seven PhD's in Law from the Oxford University can carry you. I was so annoyed when I read your remarks you made in an interview with the BBC Mariama Khai Fornah.In your remarks you said,"It's those foreign countries who are busy funding the Special Court for Sierra Leone,and it's suppose to be done in order to promote the rule of law in West Africa,because of course West Africans don't understand what the law is.They have to be taught it by these foreigners.So consequently,as part of the 'enlightening process'let the Americans and the British put their hands in their pockets and help out the Liberian People so they can see justice being done". "West Africans don't understand what the law is" but they are proud, that they have got you on your heels from Jamaica to London and to the Hague.And now you are on your heels in Freetown.Courtesy of one West African,who don't "understand what the law is". We do not compromice the lives of Sierra Leoneans to the building or improving the roads in the country.We want to know who was responsible.Because left alone,Sierra leoneans cannot afford to buy big guns to kill their people.It's only that you all want to die rich,so you sponsored the RUF.You want to be like Bill Gate? Well, I suggest you go and ask him;how he did it? Don't tell us to watch your client? We're always watching,courtesy of the Sierra Leone Special Court. To my brother Aki, we'll leave you with your special follow-up of the trial.You can check with the Prosecutor for more details.

Is my Grifftith's assertion in evidence?

If it is not, it might form the predicate for his disbarment, for it would amount to misconduct: deliberately witholding evidence.

On the other hand, he might argue correctly that the defense does not have to prevent any evidence.

True, but neither is it allowed to produce 'evidence' in the court of public opinion?

Dude, you need to go back to law school or, at least, take a crash course in legal ethics.

Oh!today Grifftith have become your man.Here you are again,a man who developed the "CONCEPT OF SOUPISM" telling "die heart" Africans to support his views,but to himself,he hides behind the curtains by changing his identity from "jallohlaw to richerson88". Was it 1988 that you left the shores of Sierra Leone,where you trained young boys to chop the limbs of civilians? I see why you call Grifftith as your man,because he is defending the Professor of the limbs choppers. Dude, I don't need school for law.I do it the traditional way,as an African.You have been preaching to us that we must follow the African heritage way of doing things.Now you are telling me to follow the British or American Man's way of studing Law.Jallohlaw, be consistent. Mind you,the allegation of you training boys to chop hands was only alleged by one writer on the Gambia charts. So ,I do not hold you responsible.But if you try to support any of those 'blood suckers'then I'll believe the allegation,judging you by a typical African way.I see school as a waste because it preaches against your true African Traditions...where you richerson88,ran naked between huts and houses,whenever it was a "cats and dogs" rain.Dude, don't fool me with school!Change your way of writing then you can change your identity,and no one will see you.Come to Freetown and let's meet under our cuttin Tree.

Do you have a problem with the concept of soupism?Tttahs go to bed if you don't like it.We'll ring it in your ears in Africa.You are very hard to be tamed.

We need allies like you, my friend; accordingly, I'll hold my lethal rhetorical bullets.

First, you completely misunderstand my post: "dude" in the mentioned post refers to the mouthpiece, the hired gun of Taylor, Grif, whatever.

Accordingly, I was attacking the hired gun, not defending him. A misunderstanding, therefore.

This much I would reveal about 'me': 'I' do not reside in Soupist Sierra Leone, although I do visit, not as a "JC" or, in our lexicon, "maroon," but as a REVOLUTIONARY, as a sworn enemy of INVADER BRITAIN and its invader seeded structure: the SOUPIST STRUCTURE.

If you are with us, you are advised to visit the Zimbabwe site, where the soupist editor of the Unconciouss Times, expresses her slavish adoration of INVADER TRADITIONS.

I urge our friends in Soupist Sierra Leone to rhetorically wrestle her to the ground in soupist Sierra Leone.

Now, we have nothing to do with the RUF, but her highness, who boasts about the obscurantist transplant Blyden, was certainly connected with the RUF, as everyone knows.

So, my friend, go in peace: a misunderstanding, it was and remains.

I don't need to go to the Zimbabwe chart room.But as a brother I do here by say sorry if I misunderstood your post.Idiomatic expressions sometimes gives me a problem,cause I don't know school.Again as a brother I advise that you stay positive.Don't support that moroon lawyer Griffith.

I'm glad that you are paying frequent visit to see mama salone.That is an idea that I welcome and praise you for.No matter what happens we must not forget mama salone.If possible we must defend her from all permanent strangers and foreigners.

It maybe of interest to this forum to know that Courtenay Griffith's wife is half Sierra Leonenean and half Irish.

We Sierra Leoneans don't care if rebels' Lawer Griffith's wife is half Sierra Leonean and half Irish. Is the wife defending Taylor?Aki, your client Taylor have lost his case.Just watch the trails,the place for Taylor is already been prepared in London,where Sierra Leoneans will be visiting him on daily basis.

If Taylor is put in his cell alone, then he has a chance of surviving the first five years.If with other inmates, then I'm sorry for your client.There'll be no chance of reaching or ending the first year in London.

My friend, you are entitled to your opinion on the guilt or innocence of Taylor.

We think that he is guilty.

Now, whether the prosecution is able to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, that is beyond our control, for that depends on nimble and creative lawyering, especially in Taylor's case, a case of CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.

Now, make no mistake about it, "circumstantial evidence" processed with the maximum level of professional finesse and diligence can send you to the big house.

So, it comes down to the quality of the lawyering.

The point? "Direct evidence", testimonial or nay, is not necessary for a conviction in a felony res or case.

Aki you might be from another planet and do not know what we went through in Liberia snd Sierra Leone. We were attacked from Liberia and Charles Taylor was then the leader of that country, Liberia was the only access point into Sierra Leone or is that rocket science for you to understand? I can understand Charlie's defence team because they got their law degrees to make money period, if I had the opportunity now I will defend Charles, because he once said "what goes round comes round", now his evil has come around him and can't work away from it, trust me. For you to know we are not going to divorce this issue from politics. Whatever you call justice some of us have no interest in knowing,we are going to drag this cas on and on and in the end jail your brother Charles for life. This is meant to teach people like you that"what goes round comes round"regardless of what you may call absence of solid facts. Moe in Jburg

deltashero, No Charles Taylor was not the leader of Liberia when the RUF invaded Sierra Leone. Having said that you are one of the many people who seem not to be interested in the facts of the case. The Prosecution was weak my friend period. Given your logic, Why isn't Tejan Kabbah on trial for supporting the CDF ? If this case is about justice in a few weeks several of the indictments against Mr. Taylor will be thrown out before the Defense even starts their case.

Now, this is getting serious.

Who was the President of soupist Liberia when "the RUF invaded Sierra Leone"?

Now, it is a historical fact that the RUF invded Sierra Leone from Liberia. The RUF could not have done that without the support of the Liberian soupist Government.

We deduce from the previous paragraph that there was NO CIVIL WAR in Sierra Leone, a position we have consistently held and argued on this site.

If Taylor was NOT the President of soupist Liberia DURING THE RUF INVASION, then who was?

This is a significant legal question, set aside its political mojo.

If someone other than Taylor was the President of Liberia during the "RUF invasion of Sierra Leone," then Taylor is the wrong defendant.

So drop the bomb, dude: WHO WAS THE PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA during the "RUF invasion of Sierra Leone?

That person needs to be docked, along with Tejan Kabba, Kofi Annan's tail in soupist West Africa.

When the RUF invaded Sierra Leone in the early 1990's Dr. Amos Sawyer was the interim President of Liberia. However the Liberian territory that the RUF used for their incursion into Sierra Leone was controlled by the Charles Taylor forces. Charles Taylor is not on trial for this. He is on trial for bearing the greatest responsibility for the atrocites commited by the rebels. This the Prosecution has not proven that he had command responsibilty. If he did why didn't the Prosecution show the billions of dollars they said that would be proven he had from the sale of diamonds. Not even one bank account was shown, no arm shipments, no written instuctions to the RUF. Come on after the over 100 million dollars the Special Court has spent on this case.

Thanks for spilling the beans.

Now, would you please tell us Sawyer's political relationship with Taylor when the "RUF invaded Sierra Leone"?

Now, if Taylor controlled the "Liberian territory" from which the RUF launched its "incursion," then Taylor is a PROPER DEFENDANT.

Given an efficient prosecutorial brigade, it should be easy to convict him.

We have claimed in this site during many moons THAT THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A CIVIL WAR in Sierra Leone.

We have, additionally, theorized that the war was a war between two soupist entities: the soupist controllers of the territory of Sierra Leone and the soupist controllers of Liberia, Kabba and Taylor, respectively.

Unless we have completely misunderstood the above post, it corroborates our theory.

The lie of a "civil war" was a game by the snake Kabba to get his corrupt erstwhile employer Annan to fatten Kabba's wallet, Ecomog's wallet, and perhaps, perhaps beyond perhaps, Annan's pockets, and Annan is not beyond charges of corruption, as his tenure at the UN was marked by explosive charges of corruption, which included his son, and perhaps, the very same Annan.