Radio silence

President Charles Taylor's 15 March order closing down two independent radio stations - Swiss-funded Star Radio and the Catholic-run Radio Veritas - may be linked to embarrassing reports emerging about the training of Revolutionary United Front fighters at Gbatala base in Kakata about 50 kilometres north of Monrovia.

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Charles Taylor, Swiss, Sam Hinga Norman, Sam 'Maskita' Bockarie, Eddie Kanneh, Chucky, Foday Sankoh, Eldred Collins

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