—United States vs. Belfast, EXHIBIT CE-5 The mountains of Trinidad’s Northern Range come into view first. Green cliffs drop directly into the churning Caribbean; then the peaks give way to steep, overgrown valleys decorated by houses and winding roadways. At the base of this descent lies Port of Spain, resting on the Gulf of Paria, the wedge-shaped inland sea that separates the island of Trinidad from its closest neighbor, Venezuela. Descending airliners cut a wide arc over the gulf lining up with Piarco International Airport. Ships litter the harbor below: fuel tankers and container vessels ambling away from port, fishing vessels gliding toward the coast, and, visible as the aircraft approaches land, shipwrecks sitting in the shallows, keeled to reveal their sun-bleached hulls basking above the milky blue waterline. Chucky landed here in mid-July 2003. Two weeks earlier he and his mother had slipped out of Monrovia, chartering a flight to Ghana and eventually on to Lomé, Togo.1 Lynn had left Monrovia shortly after their altercation, and Charles Taylor had begun preparations to abandon the presidency.
