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09-01-1999
1999
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captionIn Colombia, the notorious FARC rebels – the Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia – were known to be seeking sophisticated weaponry to further their war against the state: could Bout somehow be drawn into a deal to sell arms to the FARC? THE MOMENT the world’s most wanted arms dealer was captured thanks to the efforts of a former SAS soldier has been grippingly documented in a new book. On March 6th 2008, dozens of Thai police and American agents barged the huge bodyguard out of the way and burst in on hotel room where the ‘Merchant of Death’, as Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout, was known in the press, was hatching a multiple dollar arms deal with men he believed were South American terrorists, but who he was about to discover to his misfortune, were in fact undercover DEA agents. Thai police commander Taksin Sathon ordered everyone’s hands up as the notorious Bout reluctantly raised his hands, and casually admitted, “The game is over”.
