[dcwusmc]

Bout had eluded arrest for years and was finally seized after a four-month sting organized by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

How is it that the slugs of the DEA are properly involved in arms trafficking??? And how is it that the U.S. government is assuming any sort of jurisdiction over a foreign national in a foreign country doing business in ANOTHER foreign country? Maybe ol' Viktor Bout is a sleazeball and should be strung up by the cajones, but just how is that OUR business if he has not tried to sell arms to Democrats in THIS country???? Enquiring minds want to know!

[Jacob Kell]

He allegedly tried to smuggle arms to the Colombian FARC, a guerilla group which funds it’s war effort by drug trafficing, so it can be considered a DEA matter (although very, VERY loosly).

[Stonewall Jackson]

Remember, Al Capone was never convicted of any of the weapons, drug, prostitution, bribery, extortion, and murder charges he so richly deserved. Instead, he was brought down by tax evasion.

I think the authorities were looking for any way to bring Bout into custody. Now that they have him under arrest, they have easier access to search warrants and can now look for other things to charge him with.

Personally, if he was involved with supplying arms to Al-Qaeda, I'd string him up from the nearest telephone pole. But that's just me.

[endthematrix]

"but just how is that OUR business if he has not tried to sell arms to Democrats in THIS country???? Enquiring minds want to know! "

Could it be that Hasan Cengic and his father Halid Cengic had done work on behalf of the US during Clinton...see Bosnia.

[Dog]

Instead of worrying why it is any of our business....worry why he was in Thailand when captured.

This was not a run of the mill arms merchant....this boy played with the superpowers.

What the hell was he doing in Thailand.

[Southack]

"How is it that the slugs of the DEA are properly involved in arms trafficking??? And how is it that the U.S. government is assuming any sort of jurisdiction over a foreign national in a foreign country doing business in ANOTHER foreign country? Maybe ol' Viktor Bout is a sleazeball and should be strung up by the cajones, but just how is that OUR business if he has not tried to sell arms to Democrats in THIS country???? Enquiring minds want to know!"

Oh please.

The U.S. has advisors in Columbia to aid in their anti-narcotics war against FARC terrorists. Columbia just had a wildly successful raid that killed the FARC's #2 general and captured his laptops.

His laptops had $300 Million from Venezuela's Chavez and the record of FARC's recent massive arms purchases from this Russian bad-guy, who's living a life of child-phuqin decadence in Thailand.

So the Columbians passed that info along to us via our DEA advisors in Bogota, and now the Russia arms sleezebag is in jail.

You and Chavez are the only ones with a problem with that turn of events...