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Alleged Killer's Background Reveals Links to Benjamin
Yeaten and Cocoo Dennis
29 May 04
Although the Americans have concluded that the motive behind killing of
a civilian worker attached to the US Defence Department, John
Auffrey, 44, was robbery, the background and
connections of the main suspect, Emmanuel Mulbah, still at large, is
revealing.
- He was a ranking member of Charles Taylor’s militia, therefore a
trusted one. He served as bodyguard to Benjamin Yeanten, the infamous
commander of Taylor’s Anti-Terrorist Unit who escaped UN Sierra Leone
Special Court arrest in Togo some months ago and is now said to
be under house arrest in that country. Yeanten is linked to many
murders in Liberia and was reportedly one of the expeditionary
commanders in the Sierra Leone war.
- Mulbah, according to reports, rendered services to another Taylor
General, Cocoo Dennis. Coo Dennis is one of the most notorious of
Taylor commanders. He was living at the Mamba Point Hotel at the time
of the murder, reports say. Reports say Cocoo Dennis is now being
questioned.
- Mulbah, according to reports, visited Cocoo Dennis regularly at
the hotel.
- Reports further say the prosecutor of the Sierra Leone War Crimes,
Court David Crane, was living at the hotel and that he may have been
the target of the murder.
Police have refused to comment on these reports, fearing this may
prejudice the investigation. But the fact that all the suspects are
Charles Taylor’s ex-members of Charles Taylor’s militias raises more
questions.
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