This article details the recent evidence that Liberia’s former dictator, Charles Taylor, harbored Al-Qaida members and served as a middleman for the terrorist group by allowing them to trade cash for traceless blood diamonds. Dictators and their actions are not just a domestic threat, but also a threat to democracy and by extension, global security. In signing the Warsaw Declaration in 2000, the CD member countries agreed to emphasize “the interdependence between peace…and democracy”. The CD has resolved to “strengthen cooperation to face the transnational challenges to democracy, such as state-sponsored, cross-border and other forms of terrorism; organized crime; {and} corruption…” As an alliance of Democracies, CD works to prevent such threats to the international community through the promotion of stable democracy around the globe.