"Bout has delivered weapons into Africa and Afghanistan, among other places, but has also flown missions for the Pentagon in Iraq and for the United Nations"
What more is there left to say?
"Arms dealer from Russia ordered to face US charges; Will be extradited from Thailand; suspect says he will prevail
BANGKOK — Viktor Bout, a Russian businessman who is expected to face gun-running charges in the United States after his extradition from Thailand, expressed confidence yesterday that he would be exonerated....
Bout, who inspired the movie “Lord of War’’ starring Nicolas Cage, is suspected of running a large-scale trafficking organization that provided weapons to governments, rebels, and insurgents across the globe.
In other words, he worked for the AmeriKan war machine.
Related: Slow Saturday Special: The Lord of War
Translation: we turned on him.
The court decision yesterday, which overturned a lower court’s ruling from August 2009, was a victory for the Obama administration, which summoned the Thai ambassador in Washington to the State Department this week to “emphasize that this is of the highest priority to the United States,’’ a spokesman said.
Then why is it being announced on a Friday and soon to fade from the news pages?
Wouldn't government and MSM be playing this up?
“There have been a lot of conversations of senior administration officials with their Thai counterparts about this,’’ said one American official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity after staying up until 2 a.m. awaiting the news from Bangkok. US officials had feared that Russian pressure would prevail and Bout might be flying home this weekend.
“This really was a welcome surprise,’’ the official said of the court’s decision.
Russia, which had been seeking to prevent Bout from being placed in the American legal system, reacted angrily to the ruling.
“We regret what, in my view, is an illegal political decision taken by the appellate court in Thailand,’’ Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, said yesterday, according to the Interfax news agency. “Based on the information we have at our disposal, the decision was made under very strong outside pressure. This is lamentable.’’
He added, “I assure you that we will continue to do all that is necessary to ensure his return to his homeland.’’
The decision was the culmination of a decadelong effort by the United States to bring Bout, 43, to trial. “The Clinton folks started it, the Bush administration continued it and Obama finished it,’’ said Douglas Farah, coauthor of a book about Bout, “Merchant of Death,’’ and a fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center in Washington.
The executors of the New World Order!
Just another area where there has been no change at all.
I, myself, personally, am sick of seeing the U.S. legal system being used as an agenda-pushing platform of falsehoods with set-up patsies and "terrorists" as they let Jews and war criminals off easy and allow them to walk free.
Farah said the United States began pursuing Bout in the 1990s after officials became alarmed that he was making conflicts more deadly by showering warring parties with weapons on an unprecedented scale, including weapons as sophisticated as attack helicopters.
He was a Pentagon sales agent?
“They became aware in the mid-1990s that he had fundamentally altered the way wars were being waged,’’ Farah said. “He was flying in planeloads of this stuff. There was a lot of alarm that we were facing something new. It was the privatization of warfare.”
Oh, so BLACKWATER and the rest are HIS FAULT!!!
Did the reporter write this with a straight face?
Is that why this NEWSPAPER ARTICLE is by ANONYMOUS (check the link for yourself)?
Bout stood after the ruling was announced and embraced his wife and daughter, who wept. He said nothing to reporters in the courtroom as he was led out in leg irons and an orange prison uniform. The court ordered his extradition within three months. Later, outside the courthouse, his wife, Alla, denounced the ruling.
“This country is not fair,’’ she said. “This is a political case. I wish they hadn’t involved my husband in it.’’
Bout’s lawyers had argued that the extradition request was part of a pattern of the United States’ reaching beyond its borders to punish its enemies.
Hey, WE are an EMPIRE and WE are ALLOWED to DO THAT!
No one else -- except our master Israel -- is allowed to do such things!
Chamroen Panompakakorn, Bout’s principal lawyer, alluded to the rendition of terrorist suspects by the American government and argued that the overall credibility of the US government had been tarnished after the failed search for unconventional weapons in Iraq.
Actually, it is FAR MORE than TARNISHED; it has been COMPLETELY and UTTERLY DESTROYED by that!
I knew BEFORE the WAR Iraq had no WMD; however, THAT was the CATALYST that led be to DOUBT of state-sanctioned school education and AmeriKan newspapers.
BEFORE IRAQ I BELIEVED!!!
And now?
NEVER AGAIN!
Unless they TELL the TRUTH, the WHOLE TRUTH, and NOTHING BUT the TRUTH -- and my hopes for that outcome have FADED LONG AGO as well seeing as the WAR-PROMOTING LIES have ONLY CONTINUED!
Farah said the dogged effort to bring Bout to trial proved just the opposite, that the United States could work through normal channels to achieve justice. ”One of the big lessons here is that you can do something like this through the judicial process without rendition,” Farah said.
He continued: “Everything can be presented in court. You won’t have the mumbo-jumbo secret stuff that damages the government’s credibility.’’
Oh, you mean like the SUPER-SECRET MILITARY TRIBUNALS where they try "terrorists" after torture?
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Bout has delivered weapons into Africa and Afghanistan, among other places, but has also flown missions for the Pentagon in Iraq and for the United Nations. Sometimes Bout was hired to fly arms to a particular group, the authors of “Merchant of Death’’ note, and then was paid by the UN to deliver humanitarian aid to the same area.
Bout was arrested in March 2008 at a hotel in Bangkok after agreeing to sell millions of dollars’ worth of arms to undercover agents for the US Drug Enforcement Administration posing as rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Are you TIRED of the DOUBLE and TRIPLE GAME as reported by my newspaper, readers?
Let's face it, WAR is AmeriKa's ONLY BUSINESS now!!
CUI BONO?
The case has offered a window into the scale of arms trafficking.
And the MSM will shut it quick after this one-day wonder on a slow Saturday.
During the meeting in March 2008, Bout told the undercover American agents that he could deliver 700 to 800 surface-to-air missiles, 5,000 AK-47 assault weapons, millions of rounds of ammunition, land mines, C-4 explosives, and remotely piloted aircraft, according to the US indictment.
Related: Israeli made C4 explosive used in Bali bombing
And where did all those other weapons come from, huh?
--more--"
Also notice how there is no more coverage of the Red Shirts?
If it is IN the PAPER there is ALWAYS an AGENDA being PUSHED!
That attempted coup failed and now it is down the memory hole along with this victory for Obama.
Wouldn't the AmeriKan MSM be making a big deal of it for a president who needs a victory right now?
