Thank you very much.

Those are your words. They are not mine.

I think all of our team came to the conclusion that he had squandered his opportunity to turn Liberia from war to peace. We felt sorry for Liberia and we felt badly that he had missed that opportunity.

You know, I think we felt sorry for him. I don't think it was hostility. The truth is we felt sorry for him that he had missed a huge opportunity in Liberia.

Could I tell you an anecdote?

I think we were trying as much as we possibly could to be objective and to present the facts objectively to the Sanctions Committee and to the Security Council without adding any personal views into it.

I think we were dismayed that there seemed to be so much evidence pointing directly to Mr Taylor that he was involved in both weapons and diamonds.

Honestly, I am having trouble with the word "hostile". I mean, we I think all developed very strong feelings about the RUF. We were appalled by what we had seen. We were hostile towards the RUF.

We presented the facts as we had seen them and as we understood them. I don't think there was any hostility in the report. There wasn't any hostility intended.

I said that I did the actual typing. I didn't write it. I did the typing. I wrote the diamond sections, the other people contributed their bits and pieces and we concluded on all of the points together.

No.

I don't know. I haven't seen any other passports.

We saw - as I recall, we saw a photograph of Sanjivan Ruprah's Liberian passport and a passport in the name of Samir Nasr.

Well, those were the written reports. We talked to a number of individuals as well.

Yes.

We saw summary reports of various events as well.

We actually saw radio intercepts - very detailed radio intercepts. There was a great deal of listening going on to the RUF and to their operations in Sierra Leone and in Liberia. We saw very detailed radio intercepts of communication between people involved in all of this.

Yes.

Not predominantly the United States.

We talked to intelligence sources in - well, to British intelligence sources, to American intelligence sources, to French intelligence and perhaps because we were seeing Police officials in Israel and a couple of other countries perhaps there was some intelligence involvement there as well, but the main sources were the US ...

Yes.

Yes.

I am sorry, I don't know.

No.

So, there is no indication of when those pictures were taken.

The writing on the back of the photograph says "March 1999". That is my handwriting.

We discussed payment of funding to anybody that we were going to be meeting in the course of our work and we decided clearly and absolutely we were not going to give money to anybody for anything.

No.

The aircraft was - I am not sure whether it was owned by Leonid Minin, or whether it was rented by him, leased by him. I am not sure what the ownership of the aircraft was. I assume that anybody who required a licence to operate an aircraft would have to ...

Yes.

You will have to define mercenary. He was - well, now I have given you his gender, but he was a crew member of an aircraft. You will have to define mercenary for me.

Well, as I said, I didn't meet - I didn't meet the crew member and so it came from Mr Peleman and others, whoever else on the team met with this individual.

I understand that these were the - these were taken around the time of the March flights, the March 1999 flights, from Ouagadougou to Liberia.

Mr Peleman was involved. I don't know how many others of the team were involved.

I did not. It was other members of the panel.

There are several people who supplied us with information that were extremely frightened of giving us any information for fear of retaliation, so we haven't named the individual involved.

I think it was probably in October or November 2000. I don't have the exact date.

The panel got these from a member of the crew of the aircraft.

We - I suppose we could have done more and spent more time. We were on a very tight schedule.

I wouldn't say it was amateurish. We spent quite a long time with the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Antwerp. We had long discussions with them about the Liberian figures. I asked them to pull some files and give me some representative invoices and we decided to check on ...

Our mandate was to determine the relationship between weapons and diamonds and the traffic between these two items in Sierra Leone and in Liberia and to look at air traffic control systems. We were not to look at every air traffic control logbook for every flight. We certainly couldn't ...

No.

Yes, at random.

Yes.

No, we didn't.

No.

We approached his department on this subject and we were given information.

Yes.

We didn't say that that is what he had told him. What I wrote was that that is what the US ambassador told us.

The issue was not so much Mr Pickering's notes. The issue was what information Mr Pickering had and what he had been given by his department and we asked his department and others in the United States for all the information that they had on these subjects.