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"Merchant of Death" trial still looms: notorious global weapons trafficker Viktor Bout may now be in jail in Thailand, but extraditing him and fully exposing his Russian sponsors is another matter.(TERRORISM)

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| June 08, 2009 | Jasper, William F. | COPYRIGHT 2009 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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The Russian parliament and media refer to him merely as a "Russian businessman." But to much of the rest of the world, Viktor Bout is known as the "Merchant of Death," the most notorious member of the dark fraternity of global weapons traffickers who arm terrorist organizations, as well as the tyrannical regimes and brutal warlords and militias responsible for horrendous genocidal slaughters over the past two decades. Since his March 2008 arrest in Bangkok, Thailand, in an elaborate U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration sting, Viktor Bout has been in Bangkok's Klong Prem Special Prison awaiting trial. The U.S. Department of Justice has been ...

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