The U.S. Department of Justice has flown in 20 victims or witnesses to testify against former ULIMO rebel General Mohammed Jabateh, AKA Jungle Jabbah. He said Jabateh joined ULIMO in neighboring Sierra Leone to challenge Charles Taylor’s NPFL in 1992. In a six-page personal statement Jabateh wrote to support his asylum petition he claimed that he and his family fled into neighboring Sierra Leone on July 28, 1990 to escape fighting. “He did say in my interview with him that he was member of ULIMO,” said US immigration officer who had interviewed Jabateh during his asylum proceedings. In January of 1999, during the asylum process, Jabateh was interviewed by an immigration asylum officer to determine whether his application should be granted.

Source: Front Page Africa October 09, 2017 03:00 UTC