MERCHANT OF DEATH VIKTOR BOUT GUILTY

'BUSINESSMAN'

JAIL

THE 'MANIACAL' arms dealer dubbed the 'Merchant of Death' is facing a life behind bars after being found guilty of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism against the USA.
As we reported here, the former Soviet military officer, now 44, was caught agreeing to sell a huge cache of weapons to undercover agents posing as terrorists from the FARC group in Colombia.

MERCHANT OF DEATH VIKTOR BOUT TRIAL BEGINS

MERCHANT OF DEATH?

THE alleged arms dealer dubbed the 'Merchant of Death' was described as 'maniacal' on the opening day of his trial yesterday. 
Viktor Bout stands accused of providing a massive arsenal of weapons to “kill Americans,” as part of his alleged global network of illegal arms trafficking.
Prosecutors are also claiming that he made $50 million alone from supplying weapons to the Taliban after decades of providing weapons to countries like Lybia and the Congo.   
Kathi Lynn Austin, director of the Conflict Awareness Project, who has followed Bout for 15 years called the Russian born Bout, who describes himself as a businessman, as "maniacal" as the trial started.