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US jury convicts ex-Russian arms dealer Bout

03 November 2011 - 02:56 By Reuters
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A US jury has found former Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout guilty on charges he agreed to sell arms to people he thought were Colombian militants intent on attacking American soldiers.

  Bout, a former Soviet air force officer who was the subject of a book titled “Merchant of Death,” was arrested in Bangkok in 2008 after a US Drug Enforcement Administration sting operation and extradited to New York in November to face terrorism-related charges.

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