“Jungle Jabbah”: Liberian Cannibal Warlord Given “Asylum” in America 20 Years Ago

A Liberian cannibal war lord nicknamed “Jungle Jabbah” who was granted “asylum” in America 20 years ago was last week jailed after being found guilty of immigration fraud and perjury.

According to a press release issued by the US Department of Justice, Mohammed Jabbateh, a “violent and ruthless Liberian war lord also known as ‘Jungle Jabbah,’ who had been living in East Lansdowne, Pennsylvania was sentenced to 30 years in prison” by a US District Judge after being found guilty of two counts of fraud in immigration documents and two counts of perjury.

During the height of Liberia’s first civil war from 1992 to 1995, Jabbateh, while serving as commander of a warring faction known as the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO), “committed various acts of shocking brutality including rapes, sexual enslavement, slave labor, murder, mutilation and ritual cannibalism. He also used children as soldiers,” the DOJ statement said.

“This defendant committed acts of such violence and depravity that they are almost beyond belief,” said U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain. “This man is responsible for atrocities that will ripple for generations in Liberia. He thought he could hide here but thanks to the determination and creativity of our prosecutors and investigators, he couldn’t. This prosecution was our only option under the law and his sentence achieves at least some measure of justice for his victims.”

According to trial testimony, in one instance Jabbateh ordered the heart of a captive be cooked and fed to his fighters.



In another, fighters under the defendant’s command murdered a villager, removed his heart and ordered the town chief’s wife to cook it. Jabbateh later had the town chief himself murdered and ordered his widow to cook her husband’s heart.

In December 1998, when making application for asylum, and later for permanent legal residency, the defendant was not truthful about his activities during Liberia’s first civil war while he was a member of the ULIMO and later ULIMO-K rebel groups that battled for control of Liberia, the DOJ statement said.

“At Jabbateh’s trial, during two weeks of testimony from some two dozen witnesses, including 17 Liberian victims, the jury heard evidence that Jabbateh, as a ULIMO commander, either personally committed or ordered ULIMO fighters under his command to commit the following offenses: the murder of civilian noncombatants; the sexual enslavement of women; the maiming of civilian noncombatants; the torturing of civilian noncombatants; the enslavement of civilian noncombatants; the conscription of child soldiers; the execution of prisoners of war; the desecration of corpses and ritual consumption of human flesh; and the killing of persons because of race, religion, nationality, ethnic origin or political opinion.”

The case illustrates that the point that in many, if not all, cases of “asylum” applications in the US, almost no effort is made at the time of application to check out the veracity of the claims being made.

It was only because Jabbateh’s crimes were so high profile and shocking that any effort was made to track him down—a fact which means that the “ordinary” liars and frauds who tell US officials any old story to claim “asylum” are unlikely to ever have there claims checked out.


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