Thai Judge Refuses to Extradite Suspected Arms Trafficker - washingtonpost.com

Washington Post by Tim Johnston | Aug. 11, 2009 (News Report)

BANGKOK, Aug. 11 -- A Russian air cargo magnate suspected of being a major arms trafficker won the first stage of his battle to avoid extradition from Thailand to the United States on charges of offering to supply weapons to Colombian rebels.

Viktor Bout, 42, has spent more than a year in prison in Bangkok since being caught in a sting operation by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officers posing as members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Aug 11, 2009 - 10:02 PM PDT
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 by Samuel W. Velsor IV - Aug. 11, 2009

I blogged this elsewhere that we should appeal this and if we loss we should send a special ops team after him. This caused several vivid responses, but these illegal Russian Crime Lords do indeed get me mad [for lack of use of stronger words].

The DEA maintains that Bout agreed to supply ground-to-air missiles that could have been used to target the agency’s operatives, who are ... More »

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