August 6th, 2010 
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LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands — Fashion icon Naomi Campbell countered allegations that former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor gave her a fistful of diamonds as a flirtatious gift, divulging his war crimes trial Thursday that a small bag of “very small, dirty-looking pebbles” was delivered to her opportunity in the murky of nighttime. The famously petulant supermodel’s testimony did not grant the smoking gun prosecutors had required to show Taylor traded in so-called “blood diamonds” to arm rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone. But her appearance drew attention to Africa’s deadly conflicts and the illegal use of assets to finance war. Campbell was cool and collected as she denied knowingly receiving a gift of diamonds starting Taylor after a star-studded 1997 buffet at Nelson Mandela’s presidential mansion in South Africa.
NAOMI Campbell has admitted that she expected blood diamonds as a gift. The British supermodel told the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor that she was woken in the nighttime and given a small bag containing “small, dirty looking pebbles” after a charity buffet.
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