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 FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor left West Africa on Tuesday for the Netherlands for a long-awaited trial on charges of backing brutal rebels in Sierra Leone.
Taylor was flown by U.N. helicopter to the airport on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital and escorted onto a plane that took off shortly afterward, said Peter Andersen, a spokesman for the war crimes court.
Andersen declined to say where the plane was headed, but the Netherlands has agreed that his trial could be held at The Hague and the last logistical hurdles for his transfer there were cleared Monday.
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