Hopes of lasting peace have also been dented after Taylor was said to have attached conditions to accepting an offer of asylum in Nigeria after his scheduled resignation next Monday.
Officials in Nigeria said Taylor wanted a U.N.-backed court in Sierra Leone to drop a war crimes indictment against him for an alleged role in a brutal civil war. His lawyers have asked the World Court to quash the indictment.
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