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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Judges on Thursday ordered the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor delayed until Aug. 20 to provide time for a new defense team to prepare its case.
Taylor is accused of arming and funding Sierra Leone rebels who waged a campaign of terror in their country's 10-year civil war that ended in 2002. He has pleaded not guilty to charges including murder, rape, mutilation and conscripting child soldiers.
His landmark trial at the U.N.-backed Special Court of Sierra Leone started June 4 with the prosecution's opening statement and resumed last Monday.
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