Viktor Bout, Lord of War
Great article from Susan Rice, re yet another insanely criminal federal enterprise.
One such wanted criminal, Viktor Bout, was paid tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars while
illegally flying transport missions for the United States in Iraq. Bout is the notorious Russian
weapons merchant whose fleet of aging Soviet aircraft rivals that of some NATO countries in its size
and capacity. By marrying his access to Soviet bloc weapons with his airlift capacity, Bout
established himself as the world's premiere purveyor of illicit weapons to the world's tyrants-- a
one-stop shopping source for everyone from Charles Taylor and his armies of child soldiers of
Sierra Leone and Liberia to the Taliban in Afghanistan, from Jonas Savimbi in Angola to the FARC
rebels in Colombia.
As shown in the new book Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes and the Man Who Makes
War
Possible by former Washington Post correspondent Douglas Farah and the Los Angeles Times'
Stephen Braun, Bout flew hundreds of flights for the Pentagon and its contractors in Iraq. He did so
despite having been: 1) identified by U.S. and British intelligence as a supplier of weapons,
ammunition and aircraft to the Taliban and, indirectly, to al Qaeda; 2) the subject of an Interpol
arrest warrant at the request of the Belgian government; 3) named in almost a dozen U.N. public
reports as the chief illegal provider of weapons to Africa's rogue regimes, and; 4) the subject of an
executive order signed by George W. Bush in July 2004 making it illegal to do any business with
Bout. The executive order was followed by an order from the Treasury Department's Office of
Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in May 2005, freezing the assets of Bout, his senior partners and
main companies, again making it illegal for U.S citizens or their government to do business with
any of the named entities.
http://
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-rice/blackwater-is-just-the-ti_b_67379.html
and then there's my fave, Semion Mogilevich...http://www.villagevoice.com/news/9821,friedman,203,1.html
http://gangstersinc.tripod.com/Mog.html
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Great article from Susan Rice, re yet another insanely criminal federal enterprise.
One such wanted criminal, Viktor Bout, was paid tens of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars while
illegally flying transport missions for the United States in Iraq. Bout is the notorious Russian
weapons merchant whose fleet of aging Soviet aircraft rivals that of some NATO countries in its size
and capacity. By marrying his access to Soviet bloc weapons with his airlift capacity, Bout
established himself as the world's premiere purveyor of illicit weapons to the world's tyrants-- a
one-stop shopping source for everyone from Charles Taylor and his armies of child soldiers of
Sierra Leone and Liberia to the Taliban in Afghanistan, from Jonas Savimbi in Angola to the FARC
rebels in Colombia.
As shown in the new book Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes and the Man Who Makes
War
Possible by former Washington Post correspondent Douglas Farah and the Los Angeles Times'
Stephen Braun, Bout flew hundreds of flights for the Pentagon and its contractors in Iraq. He did so
despite having been: 1) identified by U.S. and British intelligence as a supplier of weapons,
ammunition and aircraft to the Taliban and, indirectly, to al Qaeda; 2) the subject of an Interpol
arrest warrant at the request of the Belgian government; 3) named in almost a dozen U.N. public
reports as the chief illegal provider of weapons to Africa's rogue regimes, and; 4) the subject of an
executive order signed by George W. Bush in July 2004 making it illegal to do any business with
Bout. The executive order was followed by an order from the Treasury Department's Office of
Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in May 2005, freezing the assets of Bout, his senior partners and
main companies, again making it illegal for U.S citizens or their government to do business with
any of the named entities.
http://
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-rice/blackwater-is-just-the-ti_b_67379.html
and then there's my fave, Semion Mogilevich...http://www.villagevoice.com/news/9821,friedman,203,1.html
http://gangstersinc.tripod.com/Mog.html
