Commission: Bar Liberian president from office
Charles Taylor
Sirleaf  70  acknowledged before the commission in February that she gave up to $10 000 to a rebel group headed by Charles Taylor. Sirleaf said the money she sent while an expatriate was meant for humanitarian services and that she was never a member of the group  the National Patriotic Front.
 Information Minister Laurence Bropleh said Monday evening if the public had had any dissatisfaction with Sirleaf's involvement with Taylor at the time  they would have voted against her in 2005.
 In 2005 the Liberian people knew that President Sirleaf had contributed $10 000 to Taylor's movement  Bropleh said.
 An AP correspondent and others who covered the Liberian war can recall no humanitarian works by Taylor and his fighters  especially in the first months of the war when tens of thousands of refugees were fleeing across the borders to Ivory Coast and Guinea  where they were helped by international and government agencies.
 Then  most atrocities were committed by Doe's forces and Taylor was welcomed as a liberator fighting a barbaric dictatorship.
 "In defense of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf  she never hid the fact that she was curious about Taylor and what he was all about " said Huband  who drove with Johnson Sirleaf on her first trip to meet Taylor in May 1990. "A lot of people supported the idea of Doe being ousted and there had been so many attempts  and they all were foiled  at least one with the help of the American government  which continued to support Doe despite his brutality."
 "I never had the impression that Sirleaf supported Taylor  certainly not after it became clear his troops were out of control " Huband said. "Certainly there was no way she could predict the kind of atrocities that would be committed (by Taylor's fighters) ..."
Sirleaf  70  acknowledged before the commission in February that she gave up to $10 000 to a rebel group headed by [TGT]. Sirleaf said the money she sent while an expatriate was meant for humanitarian services and that she was never a member of the group  the National Patriotic Front.
 Information Minister Laurence Bropleh said Monday evening if the public had had any dissatisfaction with Sirleaf's involvement with [TGT] at the time  they would have voted against her in 2005.
 In 2005 the Liberian people knew that President Sirleaf had contributed $10 000 to [TGT]'s movement  Bropleh said.
 An AP correspondent and others who covered the Liberian war can recall no humanitarian works by [TGT] and [TGT] fighters  especially in the first months of the war when tens of thousands of refugees were fleeing across the borders to Ivory Coast and Guinea  where they were helped by international and government agencies.
 Then  most atrocities were committed by Doe's forces and [TGT] was welcomed as a liberator fighting a barbaric dictatorship.
 "In defense of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf  she never hid the fact that she was curious about [TGT] and what he was all about " said Huband  who drove with Johnson Sirleaf on her first trip to meet [TGT] in May 1990. "A lot of people supported the idea of Doe being ousted and there had been so many attempts  and they all were foiled  at least one with the help of the American government  which continued to support Doe despite his brutality."
 "I never had the impression that Sirleaf supported [TGT]certainly not after it became clear his troops were out of control " Huband said. "Certainly there was no way she could predict the kind of atrocities that would be committed (by [TGT]'s fighters) ..."