The Budweiser Interrogation: Firestone, the Warlord, and the Doe Tape — West Africa Desk Research Note

A West Africa Desk research note documenting Samuel Doe's videotaped torture in September 1990 and the reported record of Firestone's dealings with Charles Taylor's rebel government in Liberia. It archives and cites the FRONTLINE and ProPublica documentation, including preserved Wayback copies, without reproducing or distributing the torture footage itself. Version 2 audio: AI remaster. The audio reading in this version is an AI-generated remaster, regenerated so the spoken opening carries the record's Budweiser headline; the research note is unchanged from version 1.