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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - A U.N.-backed court on Monday authorized the transfer of ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor to an international tribunal in The Hague that will try him for war crimes.
The court did not say when Taylor might be sent to the Netherlands.
The directive formally endorses a U.N. Security Council authorization Friday for Taylor's transfer overseas. The Sierra Leone tribunal requested that the trial be moved out of fear the presence of a man once one of the region's most feared warlords could still spark unrest in West Africa.
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