Is it: Former Thai president Chen gets life sentence --"
"Taiwan"
Third option is in my title, readers.
Can't even get or edit that right, can you, MSM?
And you think my typos are a problem? No wonder you guys are losing $$$.
How do you break ties?
Post another article.
"Thais block extradition in arms dealer case" by New York Times | August 12, 2009
BANGKOK - A Thai court stunned US officials here yesterday by rejecting the extradition of Viktor Bout, a Russian businessman and suspected global arms trafficker accused of agreeing to sell weapons to agents posing as Colombian rebels intending to kill American pilots patrolling in the drug war.
Related: The Wrong Side of Weapons Smuggling
"undercover US agents posed as rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by its Spanish acronym, FARC," huh?
Imagine that!
A three-judge panel said that the case did not fall under Thailand’s extradition treaty with the United States on two grounds. One, the country recognizes the rebels - the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC - as a political organization, not a terrorist group. Two, on the charge that Bout was conspiring to kill American citizens, one of the judges, Jitakorn Patanasiri, said, “A Thai court cannot judge a case regarding aliens killing aliens outside of Thailand.’’
Thai government prosecutors, acting as proxies for their American counterparts, immediately said they would appeal. Bout would be freed only if an appeal was not filed within 72 hours.
That tells you a lot right there.
See: CIA Trying For Coup in Thailand
Bout, 42, has denied any links to arms trafficking. Wearing a soiled prison uniform and leg irons, Bout hardly fit his accuser’s portrayal of him as one of the world’s most notorious weapons traffickers - or the character he supposedly inspired in the 2005 film “Lord of War.’’
According to legal papers, Bout told undercover agents for the US Drug Enforcement Administration that he could deliver 700 to 800 surface-to-air missiles, 5,000 AK-47 assault weapons, ammunition, land mines, and C-4 explosives, and that the weapons would be airdropped into the jungles of Colombia “with great accuracy.’’
What, we turn on him?
Also see:
Related: U.S. Government Brings Drug War to U.S. Cities
"FARC chief denies getting Venezuela arms"by Associated Press | August 14, 2009
BOGOTÁ - FARC, Latin America’s last major rebel army, has been trying to overthrow successive Colombian governments for a half century. It has been put on the defensive in recent years by Colombia’s US-backed military and has lost support amid reports that it is funded by drug trafficking and continues to hold dozens of hostages in the jungle.
But SOMEHOW (wink, wink), they NEVER GO AWAY!
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