Charles Taylor may find that in accepting this support he has taken on more than he can handle. In my forthcoming book [1] The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) (Regnery) I discuss how the Byzantine Emperor John VI Cantacuzenes appealed to Muslims for help in a dynastic dispute. They came into Europe and stayed.

John VI was not the first Christian ruler to make alliances with Muslims; nor was he the first to pay for doing so. But his alliance may have had the worst long-lasting effects. Unfortunately, the short-sightedness of modern Western rulers makes them all liable to be the next John VI Cantacuzenes. From [2] AP, with thanks to Twostellas:

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Liberia's exiled former president, Charles Taylor, received money recently from an al-Qaeda operative and is trying to destabilize west Africa, prosecutors for Sierra Leone's U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal said Tuesday. Chief prosecutor David Crane said Taylor harbored members of al-Qaeda including those who allegedly took part in the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1997, and was allegedly in contact with a member of the terrorist network as recently as last month.

"Al-Qaeda has been in west Africa. It continues to be in west Africa, and Charles Taylor has been harboring members of al-Qaeda," Crane said, adding that he believes west Africa is going to become the next Afghanistan.