Arresting The Merchants Of Death

Victor Bout

From The Belmont Club:

Victor Bout and Monzer al-Kassar: household names, if not in the land of the living, then among the houses of the soon to be dead: the victims of the world's Merchants of Death. Victor Bout was a notorious Russian arms dealer, doing business all over the world, who was arrested in a DEA sting operation in Thailand, where he remains. The Americans want him tried in New York. The Russians don't. The Sydney Morning Herald reports:

Bout was arrested in a sting operation initiated by the US Drug Enforcement Administration a few hours after he arrived in Bangkok. The agency says he came to Thailand to negotiate the sale of Igla surface-to-air missiles to two undercover agents posing as officers from the Colombian narco-rebel movement known as FARC.

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My Comment: Arms merchants have been with us for so long, they are considered a part of the international community. Adnan Khashoggi is probably the one that has been the most successful, but like the drug trade, when you get rid of one gang there will always be another one to replace them.