Charles Taylor’s arrest drama-rama
By Martin Plaut
BBC News
Mysterious car
This is more than 1,000km (600 miles) from Calabar, and a traditional route through to Chad.
According to an eyewitness who saw the events unfold, some children began lifting the barrier which marks the border.
An official saw them, and began walking towards the vehicle. At this point two men - the driver and an escort - sprang out, leapt over the barrier and escaped into Cameroon.
More security officials arrived, and are reported to have found three people in the car: a man, dressed in a flowing white robe, a woman and a child.
When the man got out, the eyewitness recognised him as Charles Taylor.
The former president was promptly arrested and taken in an armed convoy to the state capital, Maiduguri.
A presidential jet was waiting for him there, and Mr Taylor was taken aboard, with a military escort.
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