Liberia, Aug. 28 -- Part Two of FrontPageAfrica's series raised two warnings in one breath: that justice is moving at different speeds for different Liberians, and that the evidence behind this summer's biggest number may already be gone. Either one, left unanswered, could cost this country the case altogether

Liberia has been here before, and not in the way anyone in government seems eager to remember. Years ago, this country prosecuted a case involving cocaine reportedly worth nearly US$2 billion, intercepted with the help of the French Navy. It should have been the defining anti-trafficking victory of its era. Instead, it ended in a not-guilty verdict, because the enormous quantity announced to the public was disposed of before trial,...