Well, your Honours, we have this courtroom exclusively through December, as far as the ICC is concerned, and I don't want us to lose any of the time that we have available here. Others witnesses, some have been on the stand for more than a week, some for more ...

Excuse me, Mr President. I am reticent to rise, but the purpose of an opening statement is to talk about the evidence that the Defence intends to present. They are talking about evidence that the Prosecution presented, numbers - I think the record reflects that all but two of these crime ...

Good morning Mr President, your Honours, counsel. Appearing today for the Prosecution, Stephen Rapp Prosecutor, together with principal trial attorney Brenda Hollis, Mohamed Bangura, Kathryn Howarth, Christopher Santora, Maja Dimitrova and James Johnson. Thank you, your Honour.

Yes, your Honour, we do have another witness prepared. This witness, however, is in closed session. This is TF1-168.

I thank her for that. I think my record was in folder 3, D-54. Not D-3. So my apologies.

Thank you.

Right. And additionally D-54, I believe. So we are talking D-3, D-54 - okay. I believe Ms Maja Dimitrova. I think we are talking about three documents only. Sorry, I can't offer four. That's correct, your Honour.

D-3, D-29 and P-149. And the fourth document - and they are in folders 3, 15 and 24 of the Registry's folders. But the question was the first document. We have a true certified copy from the evidence unit. That's not physically here. We will bring that one as ...

The only other housekeeping matter is there are four exhibits that are presently in evidence either as Prosecution or Defence exhibits that are copies. During the course of this exercise we have been able to locate the original. I don't know - I was prepared at the conclusion of dealing ...

No, we would not object, your Honour.

Okay. Thank you very much, your Honour.

As I indicated, he has been allowed to be a witness in the case and we may wish to recall him now that he is on the witness list. Just as long as his being discharged doesn't prevent that, we certainly have no objection.

Well, your Honour, with due respect, I heard what Mr Munyard said and Justice Doherty quoted that in regard to this provenance issue which he cited twice. There are certainly important issues that need to be resolved and they don't have to be raised necessarily by counsel and your ...

I am just saying this is one of those four motions. This is their objection to that one. That is what it is. That is what they checked off. I mean on page - this is the annex to their "objection to admission of documents seized from Foday Sankoh's house ...

Well, I am referring specifically to the document which bears the number - we are specifically talking about letter - we are talking about the particular document that is MFI-1. That is a document which we've identified here and that is the document that in Annex A on Court Management Service ...

If I might be permitted? As I was proceeding with this I pulled out Annex A to the Defence response and I was going to go ahead with MFI-1, a letter "To: The Leader" and "From: Jackson Swaray", and the Defence attached a checklist where they checked what their objection ...

Well, your Honours, we are trying to be of assistance to the Trial Chamber and I should point out that almost all of these exhibits were included in very early motions filed even before the commencement of trial and certainly efforts were made to put many of these exhibits before ...

Keep in mind that that is an item of evidence not included in this group upon which there are - I mean it basically goes to a construction of 89(C), but obviously the construction of that rule is important for determination of the standard for admissibility.

That's correct, your Honour, but based solely upon motions predicated on their relevance but without the assistance of witness testimony, yes.

Your Honour, we obviously have 38 MFIs here including some sub-parts and I want to proceed in the most expeditious way and of course many of the arguments may be repetitive but I think we probably have to move through them individually. We are submitting these based on relevance and ...

No, nothing.

I think there is no harm in having the witness here and there is certainly the possibility that there might be a reason for him to be present, if there was some information or some confusion about a document number.

Your Honours, I would have no other questions of the witness. Obviously we would be prepared to move forward with moving MFI-s into evidence when you are prepared for that.

Which would have been the item at tab 14 which is in evidence as D-4?

And that would have been --

And the other document?

And that would be the document, if you recall, that was behind tab 3 which is now D-54. Does that --

And that's --

I just want to be clear because I - do you remember what tab - if you could repeat those again, I was just getting my list here?

And the other question is you mentioned documents, certain of the first group of 14, that came to the Office of the Prosecutor and to the evidence unit from Ms Cordwell. Do you know which documents those were?

So you were able to obtain a comparison from a laboratory that that was Sam Bockarie?

Witness, you remember being asked - well, first of all you remember on direct examination you discussed your role in dealing with the body of Sam Bockarie and mentioned drawing DNA samples. On cross-examination, Mr Munyard asked you - followed up on that and asked you were you able to identify other ...

Just a few questions in redirect examination, your Honours.

Mr President, our appearances are now Steven Rapp the Prosecutor, Brenda Hollis and Maja Dimitrova and I should note for the record that Ms Hollis did come in at the beginning of the second session and I had omitted to rise at that time, I apologise, but she was present ...

Your Honours, I believe that when this item was originally exhibited in Court it was a copy without the black-out and that was made on the instructions of your Honours. We will check the record in that regard.

Given the nature of this document we have no objection to it being given to him.

Your Honours, with all due respect, I mean "hearsay" may be a term in common parlance but this is a legal objection, and of course there is no hearsay rule here but it's asking the witness essentially to characterise something by a legal term. He's not a qualified ...

Thank you very much, your Honours.

Okay. Well then, your Honours, with the Court's indulgence we would ask that what we have just put in as MFI-38 be withdrawn and instead that the unERN'd copy that bears the CMS number 22517 would be the document marked for identification as MFI-38.

I believe for the record, your Honours, rather than going back, that the document here would reflect the fact that the date of this issue of The News is Tuesday, 19 January 1999, Monrovia, Liberia. That's quite clear on the second version and almost clear other than I think ...

And that ERN'd version carries the CMS number 22518.

Your Honours, that will conclude our direct examination - our examination-in-chief. I do want to indicate to the Court that at the conclusion of this witness's testimony we will ask for the right to reserve recalling the witness later in ...

With that, your Honours, we would ask that the ERN'd copy that bears the ERN number 00101964 be marked for identification as MFI-38.

Finally, witness, you had mentioned a newspaper article that had reported on a statement from the embassy of Nigeria and I would ask the Court Attendant of the Registry to place before you the document behind tab 55 and ask you whether that document is the document you mentioned and ...

Your Honours, just looking at it, it does appear that the unERN'd version may be slightly easier to read. It is rather fuzzy on the first, so we would ask that the unERN'd version, the third and fourth pages behind the binder, that deal with the - from The ...

Then, witness, you had described a document regarding people trapped in Freetown, or a news article in regard to that, and I'd ask the Court Attendant to place before you the document that follows tab 54 in the second binder. Witness, is this one of the documents you mentioned ...

And for the record it contains the CMS or it is associated with the pages CMS numbers 22525 and 22526:

Your Honour, with that we would ask that this document in two pages be marked for identification as MFI-36.

Witness, I think we had just marked for identification, or your Honours had just marked for identification, MFI-35. You had described several other news reports that were in this collection regarding events in Sierra Leone. If I'm not mistaken, my recollection is there was one about soldiers captured in ...

May I have a look at the document as well?

Your Honour, as we're prepared to have these both marked for identification. However, it's not our desire to put before the Court information that's extraneous or to overweigh the evidence file, so it would frankly be our preference simply to have the third and fourth pages here ...