Liberia ex-warlord 'Jungle Jabbah' jailed for 30 years in US
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A Liberian former warlord whose forces committed atrocities including murders and cannibalism during the country's civil war was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in US prison -- for immigration-related fraud and perjury. Nicknamed «Jungle Jabbah,»Liberia ex-warlord 'Jungle Jabbah' jailed for 30 years in US
A Liberian former warlord whose forces committed atrocities including murders and cannibalism during the country's civil war was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in US prison -- for immigration-related fraud and perjury. Nicknamed «Jungle Jabbah,» 51-year-old Mohammed Jabateh commanded the «United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy» (ULIMO) and later ULIMO-K rebel groups, which engaged in killings, rapes, multilation and cannibalism during Liberia's 1989-2003 civil war, according to prosecutors. Jabateh was arrested in March 2016. It is not the atrocities that will send the former warlord to prison, but rather lying about his past to American authorities as part of his 1998 asylum application and his subsequent bid for permanent residency, which saw him convicted in October of «two counts of fraud in immigration documents and two counts of perjury.» ... Read more