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2 posted on 02/17/2010 6:40:55 PM PST by wastedyears (The curtain has fallen, behold the messiah.)

4 posted on 02/17/2010 6:53:19 PM PST by Cindy

amateur hell. read the book on him. this guy has caused so much international war, it is almost unbelievable. this is actually incredible news, and a sad story in that the U.S. even used him to ferry around military items, because he was the only guy capable of doing it.

9 posted on 02/17/2010 7:21:08 PM PST by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")

Bout was/is far far from being an amateur. He was the prmier example of buying/selling to all sides in a conflict. His reputation was for providing what weapons were wated an a speedy manner.
To do this he would buy ships/trucks/aircraft or whatever he needed to transport his wares to where they had to go.
He would re-paper these to meet whatever cursory inspections he would encounter. And the "stuffed envelope" passed to the inspectors smoothed the trail.

Yes, he got caught. But it was a concerted effort by a large number of government agencies working for 10 yrs or more that brought him into the net.
He was most definitely not an 'amateur.'

And remember..."An indictment is not a conviction."

13 posted on 02/18/2010 12:55:41 AM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)

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