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Together, Farah and Braun have produced an impressive, investigative work, outlining not only how international arms traffickers such as Bout, and especially Bout, operate – but also the ironies of the international response to their activities. Bertil Lintner , Asia Times Read the Full Review A riveting investigation of the world’s most notorious weapons dealer, Viktor Bout, whose post-Cold War arms network has stoked violence worldwide. Fawaz A. Gerges, Washington Post Read the Full Review A new book on Victor Bout by American journalists Doug Farah and Stephen Braun contains allegations that the Russian had a much wider remit than just Africa. The authors describe a hydra-headed network of companies which emerged from the ashes of the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s – all of them associated in some way, the book says, with Mr Bout. Mark Doyle, BBC News Read the Full Review An outstanding service to journalism and the public interest, Farah and Braun have written a book that should be read by everybody interested in knowing the depths of human greed and its involvement with terrorism. It is disturbing to imagine how many Viktor Bouts the collapsed Soviet Union loosed on the world, and whether…
About the Authors
[caption id="attachment_14" align="alignleft" width="100" caption="Douglas Farah"][/caption] Douglas Farah is a national security and terror finance consultant and a frequent guest lecturer to the U.S military and intelligence community. He worked for two decades as a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter, mostly for the Washington Post, covering armed conflicts, drug trafficking and organized crime in Latin America and West Africa. As West Africa bureau chief of the Washington Post in 2001, he broke the story of al Qaeda’s ties to the “blood diamond” trade. He is the author of “Blood from Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror” (Broadway 2004) and his writings have appeared in The New Republic, Foreign Policy Magazine, Men’s Vogue, Mother Jones, The Financial Times, The American Journalism Review, The Washington Post Magazine and other publications. He won the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for a series on death squads in El Salvador and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University for his coverage of Latin America. [caption id="attachment_15" align="alignleft" width="100" caption="Stephen Braun"][/caption] Stephen Braun is a national correspondent based in Washington for the Los Angeles Times. He shared in the Times’ 1991 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Los Angeles riots and a…
Who is Viktor Bout?
[caption id="attachment_30" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="US Government photo"][/caption] Viktor Bout, the “Merchant of Death,” a Russian aviation tycoon suspected as leader of the world’s largest weapons trafficking network, faces federal trial in New York on charges of conspiracy to aid a terrorist organization and kill American citizens. After years of eluding authorities, Bout, 44, was arrested in Bangkok on March 6, 2008. He was targeted by a year-long sting operation by federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents and undercover informants posing as South American terrorists. Bout endured two years in a Bangkok prison until Thai authorities extradited him to the U.S. in November, 2010. Over two decades, Bout, a former Soviet military officer, amassed a fleet of more than 60 transport planes, hundreds of companies and a fortune reportedly in excess of $6 billion. His aircraft flew from Afghanistan to South America, carrying anything from raw minerals to gladiolas, drilling equipment to frozen fish. But their stock in trade, according to authorities, were black market arms — assault rifles, ammunition, anti-aircraft missiles, helicopter gunships and a full range of sophisticated weapons systems. His clients included dictators like Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi, Liberia’s Charles Taylor and Zaire’s Mobutu Sesse Seko. His planes flew both…
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