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From AFP:
>RIYADH, Aug 13: Liberian President Charles Taylor will convert to Islam on
a
>forthcoming trip to Makkah, the Saudi newspaper Okaz reported on Friday.
>Taylor was influenced by Libyan leader Moamer Qadhafi over a lunch at
Sirte,
>on the Libyan coast, the daily said quoting informed sources.
>
>Qadhafi suggested a conversion and Taylor was receptive saying he
>"appreciated Islamic values and was studying deeply the precepts," of the
>religion, the newspaper reported.
>
>The newspaper's editor attended the lunch, the daily said, but did not give
>a date.
>
>Taylor would announce his conversion at the holy city of Makkah on his
visit
>to Saudi Arabia, which Okaz said would take place "very soon".-AFP
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