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| Britain asks for action against Bout |
| 2002-05-03 |
| Britain has asked Russia to take action against an arms dealer who is living freely in Moscow despite his alleged role in supplying weapons to the Taliban and al-Qaida. Peter Hain, the Europe minister, asked the Russian authorities at a recent meeting to turn in Victor Bout, the subject of an international arrest warrant for flying arms to Afghanistan before the September 11 attacks. The Russian deputy foreign minister, Anatoly Safonov, is understood to have responded positively to the request. That means they're gonna pick him up, unless he beats it for Soddi Arabia or pays somebody in Russia off. Mr Bout, whom Mr Hain called "the merchant of death" in 2000 for supplying arms to the rebel Unita movement in Angola, was named by the foreign office on Thursday as an aircraft supplier to Osama bin Laden. And that would make him a pretty major cog in the international terror machine. Wonder how many others like him are in the works? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |