Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Trial For The ' Merchant Of Death' Begins




Viktor Bout Goes On Trial In Arms-Trafficking Case -- Washington Post

A Manhattan federal prosecutor on Wednesday accused Russian arms broker Viktor Bout of seeking to sell millions of dollars in weapons, including 100 surface-to-air missiles, to purported agents of a Colombian rebel group that expressed an intent to kill American pilots.

The allegations came at the opening of Bout's trial, the culmination of a five-year-long effort by the United States to capture and prosecute one of the world's most famous alleged arms traffickers.

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