Tue Nov 10, 6:06 AM ET

FILE - In this July 13, 2009 file photo former Liberian President Charles Taylor is seen at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, Netherlands. Charles Taylor claims Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, he was indicted for war crimes as part of a U.S. 'regime change' plan to gain control of West African oil reserves. Taylor has made the allegation in a typically defiant final day of direct testimony in his own defense at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The international tribunal is trying Taylor on allegations he controlled and supported rebels who murdered and mutilated thousands of civilians during Sierra Leone's 1992-2002 civil war. (AP Photo/Robin van Lonkhuijsen, Pool, File)

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