US agent testifies in Bout trial

Published: 20/10/2011 at 09:51 AM
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An undercover US agent testified that he posed as a Colombian rebel pleading for weapons to fight American troops, and that Russian Viktor Bout personally drew up a shopping list that would make an army proud.

Alleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout arrives at a Criminal Court in Bangkok in 2010. An undercover US agent has testified that he posed as a Colombian rebel pleading for weapons to fight American troops, and that Bout personally drew up a shopping list that would make an army proud.

The single sheet of handwritten notes featured in the New York trial of the alleged international black market arms kingpin, who was caught by US agents in a sting operation in a Bangkok hotel in 2008.

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bkk-farang
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Discussion 2 : 20/10/2011 at 11:36 AM2
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Interesting but I think it is impossible for any outsider to judge what was and is really happening. Maybe Bout was paid a couple of million by another (American or whatever) agency to find rebels who want to buy weapons to fight America. Who knows?
You write: The chief US drug enforcement agency agent said that the defendant is "one of the most dangerous men on the face of the earth” I guess some other most dangerous men are American agents and American sponsored and trained rebel groups all over the world.
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Discussion 1 : 20/10/2011 at 10:46 AM1
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"...the defendant is one of the most dangerous men on the face of the earth."

Perhaps. What about dictators and war mongers like the presidents of Syria, North Korea, Myanmar and the USA, to name but a few?
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