Source: Corbett Report and Boiling Frogs Post
James Corbett
Is the “Merchant of Death” a spy, a stooge, or a patsy?
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TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES:
James Corbett
Is the “Merchant of Death” a spy, a stooge, or a patsy?
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TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES:
When alleged arms dealer and so-called “Merchant of Death” Viktor Bout was convicted
in a Manhattan federal court room earlier this month on charges of
conspiracy to kill US citizens, the verdict came as a surprise to few
who had been watching the case unfold. Since his apprehension in
Thailand in 2008 in a DEA sting and his subsequent extradition to the US
in 2010, few have doubted that prosecutors would convict Bout, who has
been deemed one of the world’s most-wanted men since a series of reports
by the UN Security Council beginning in 2000 accused him of arming
dictators, fueling wars and enabling war crimes everywhere from Angola
to Somalia to Liberia to Afghanistan.
The American media, perhaps unsurprisingly, never fails to mention “Lord of War,”
the 2005 Nicolas Cage film which is said to be a fictionalized version
of Bout’s own story, in attempting to describe Bout’s case.
