Liberia, Aug. 7 -- A nightspot closed for a day, its owner facing charges, and a lot of unanswered questions about who else spent their evenings there. If the government treats Private Bar as a single businessman's problem rather than what it may actually be - a gathering place for a trafficking network operating in plain sight of Liberia's young people - it will have missed the point of this entire scandal.

PRIVATE BAR ENTERTAINMENT CENTER is, on any ordinary night, exactly what its name promises: music, drinks, a crowd, mostly young. That is precisely what should worry Liberians most about what investigators now say was happening there. This newspaper reported this week that George "Leroy" Harris, the venue's owner, faces a lengthy lis...