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[[File:Taylor's Mugshot 1983.png|thumb|Taylor's Mugshot 1983]]

Taylor graduated from The Bentley Academy and returned to Liberia to join the government of [[Samuel Doe]]. He was accused of embezzlement, being arrested, and imprisoned in US territory. He escaped from prison and arrived in Libya, where he was trained as a guerrilla under the tutelage of Libyan dictator [[Muammar Gaddafi]]. He returned to his country in 1989 as head of a resistance group, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (FPNL), to assassinate the repressive Doe, initiating the first Liberian Civil War.

Taylor was involved in the coup that removed [[Thomas Sankara]] from power in Burkina Faso and brought [[Blaise Compaoré]] to power.

Taylor’s forces advanced on the capital of Monrovia in 1990, but his bid for power was checked by rival groups. Doe was brutally [[torture]]d and killed by Taylor's ally [[Prince Johnson]], and for the next seven years, the armed factions fought a brutal civil war in which more than 150,000 people were killed and more than half of the population became refugees.

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 [[File:Taylor's Mugshot 1983.png|thumb|Taylor's Mugshot 1983]]
 Taylor graduated from The Bentley Academy and returned to Liberia to join the government of [[Samuel Doe]]. He was accused of embezzlement, being arrested, and imprisoned in US territory. He escaped from prison and arrived in Libya, where he was trained as a guerrilla under the tutelage of Libyan dictator [[Muammar Gaddafi]]. He returned to his country in 1989 as head of a resistance group, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (FPNL), to assassinate the repressive Doe, initiating the first Liberian Civil War.
+Taylor was involved in the coup that removed [[Thomas Sankara]] from power in Burkina Faso and brought [[Blaise Compaoré]] to power.
 Taylor’s forces advanced on the capital of Monrovia in 1990, but his bid for power was checked by rival groups. Doe was brutally [[torture]]d and killed by Taylor's ally [[Prince Johnson]], and for the next seven years, the armed factions fought a brutal civil war in which more than 150,000 people were killed and more than half of the population became refugees.