The government dipped into its arsenal of wiretaps of accused arms dealer Viktor Bout and played a tape of the suspect trying to make common ground with U.S. informants posing as Colombian narcoterrorists. “We have the same enemy,” Bout said in a taped conversation played to a federal jury in a Manhattan courtroom.

—AP, “Just before the trial ended for the week Wednesday, the government began playing tapes containing conversations among Bout, two accomplices and two informants in a hotel conference room shortly before his arrest.”

—AFP, “The jewel in the prosecution case is the dramatic hotel meeting where Bout jotted down the arsenal he allegedly said he would procure for the FARC. The list, written in Russian and occasionally Spanish, includes everything from 122 mm shells to plastic explosive, assault rifles, and 10 million rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition.”