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    Ex-warlord Johnson in Liberia quits his own party

    Prince Johnson, a former warlord-turned-politician who is best known for having videotaped himself overseeing the torture of Liberia's ex-president, announced Friday he is quitting the political party he founded.For years since the end of Liberia's civil war, Johnson has tried to erase his violent past, first becoming an evangelical pastor, and later running for office. He was already a senator from his native Nimba County when he founded the National Democratic Union Party in order to run for president in the 2011 election.Despite his notorious past, he came in third, allowing him to play the role of kingmaker in the election by throwing his support behind Nobel Peace Prize winner President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who won a second term with Johnson's backing.On Friday, Johnson told The Associated Press he was leaving the party because the party's executives "do not have regard for me as the standard-bearer, founder and financier." He added that the people he had brought on board to run...

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