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April 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Bout was extradited to the United States in 2010, after a two and a half year
legal battle in the teeth of Russian opposition. He was found guilty after a
three-week trial in November last year. Along with attempting to sell arms
he was convicted of conspiring to kill US citizens and officers.
Bout, who was born in Tajikistan, came to widespread public attention in 2000
when the UK’s Africa minister Peter Hain told parliament he was a “merchant
of death” who delivered arms to rebels of the Revolutionary United
Front in Sierra Leone, where British troops were deployed.
US and United Nations officials also named the Russian as a major supplier of
sanctions-busting arms to corrupt regimes and guerrillas in Africa, South
America and the Middle East. Bout’s notoriety grew and his exploits inspired
the 2005 Hollywood film, Lord of War, starring Nicolas Cage.
During the trial last year, Bout maintained his innocence. His lawyers said he
had wanted to sell the Colombians two transport planes and strung them along
with talk of weapons in the hope of securing the aircraft sale.
In an interview
with the Voice of Russia radio station on Wednesday, he said: “I never
expressed animosity towards American people. I never intended to kill
anybody.” He complained that his incarceration in a US solitary
confinement cell was equal to torture, and contrasted sorely with Thai jails
where there were “nice bowls with fish and plenty of flowers.”
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said on Friday that he would raise
Bout’s case at his next meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
He said there had been “unprecedented pressure” on the New York
court to punish the Russian.
Senior officials in Moscow suggested that Bout could be extradited to serve
out his sentence in Russia. The arms trafficker’s lawyer has declared his
intention to appeal. After the sentencing on Thursday, Bout’s wife, Alla,
said it was unfair but admitted it was a victory that the judge gave him a
25-year jail term rather than the life sentence requested by prosecutors.
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