An ex-general of former President Charles Taylor's disbanded National Patriotic Front of Liberia rebels, James Willie Adolphus, alias "Coocoo" Dennis, is still a serious threat to peace and security in Liberia and the entire West Africa, a UN Panel of Experts report has revealed.
According to the Panel, in August this year, a month before Taylor's sentence was upheld by the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Dennis and Taylor's younger brother Adolphus Taylor mobilized more than 1,000 former combatants from the former president's notorious but now-defunct Anti-Terrorist Unit to revive Taylor's abandoned 6,000 acre farm in Gbarnga, Bong County, central Liberia.
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