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             US: Liberian War Criminal Held on Immigration Charges

   by VOA News

   U.S. federal prosecutors have charged a Liberian immigrant living in
   suburban Philadelphia of lying about his past to enter the United
   States.

   Officials said Wednesday that Mohammed Jabbateh, known as "Jungle
   Jabbah," has been charged with concealing his past as a commander of a
   rebel group during Liberia's first civil war.

   The indictment says Jabbateh committed or ordered others to commit war
   crimes including the murder of civilians, sexual enslavement of women,
   conscription of child soldiers, rape, torture and corpse abuse.

   Officials say Jabbateh lied when applying for political asylum in 1998
   and legal residency four years later.

   Jabbateh's bail hearing is set for Monday.
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