A former Liberian warlord known as Jabbahteh has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in the United States after he lied to gain asylum in the country and also ordering the cooking of the hearts of captives and those he killed.


Mohammed Jabbateh, 51, who has lived in East Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, since the late 1990s, was found guilty in October on two counts of fraud in immigration documents and two counts of perjury.

He lied about his role in the civil war in his homeland and atrocities he committed, prosecutors said on Friday. During the height of Liberia’s first civil war from 1992 to 1995, Jabbateh, while serving as commander of a warring group, either personally committed or ordered acts such as rapes, ritual cannibalism, mutilation, murder and the use of child soldiers, according to prosecutors.An attorney for Jabbateh, Greg Pagano of Philadelphia, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“Liberian victims have been waiting for more than 15 years to see their perpetrators held accountable,” he said in a statement, calling Jabateh’s conviction and sentence “a testament to the unwavering commitment and resilience of the victims who are making their voices heard not only within Liberia but also globally.”

None of the 17 Liberians whom the U.S. Justice Department flew in from Africa to testify against Jabateh last fall attended Thursday’s proceedings. But their presence was keenly felt.

When asked at trial to identify the man responsible for their torment, each offered the same answer, identifying Jabateh by his nom de guerre, “Jungle Jabbah.”

One woman testified she had been captured and turned into a sex slave at 13, being raped daily for weeks until she managed to escape. A farmer from Liberia’s northwest mining country detailed how he had been forced into slavery and ordered to dig for diamonds on threat of death, to fund Jabateh’s war effort.

Prosecutors said while applying for asylum in December 1998, Jabbateh was not truthful about his membership in the group known as the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO), and later ULIMO-K, rebel groups that battled for control of Liberia.Two dozen witnesses, including 17 Liberian victims, testified in the trial.

According to testimony, in one instance, Jabbateh ordered that the heart of a captive be cooked and fed to his fighters. In another, fighters under his command murdered a villager, removed his heart and ordered the town chief’s wife to cook it.

Jabbateh later had the town chief himself murdered and ordered his widow to cook her husband’s heart.


For his part, Jabateh – the owner of an international shipping business and the father of 13 children in the United States and Africa — said nothing throughout the hearing, staring blankly ahead as Diamond ticked off a list of his misdeeds.

When it came time to address the judge, he leaned forward slightly and spoke softly into the microphone: “Your Honor, sir, I have nothing to say.”

Within minutes of his removal from the courtroom in handcuffs, reactions poured in from the Philadelphia region and from across the Atlantic.

“The atrocities committed by Mohammed Jabateh are so horrific that they are almost beyond belief,” U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain said. “For his surviving victims and the family members of those he brutally murdered, we hope this sentence offers some measure of comfort.”

During Jabbateh’s trial Pagano said Jabbateh had been framed by accusers who were desperate to blame anyone they could for atrocities committed during the civil war.

“These are tall tales of enemies settling old scores – not because they had personal experiences with him but because of what group he’s identified with,” Pagano said at the trial, according to a posting on his website.

“There is no greater motive than revenge.”

The case was investigated by special agents of Homeland Security Investigations, an arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.


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