International Herald Tribune Staff editorial on Viktor Bout.
“The fall of the lord of war”:
When DEA agents and Thai police nabbed Bout, at the conclusion of a four-month sting operation to lure him from the safety of his luxury apartment in Moscow, the only thing he would say to his captors was, “Game is over.”
This was [...]

Arms trafficker Viktor Bout was arrested on Thursday in Thailand.
Form the New York Times:
A Russian businessman regarded by the United States as one of the world’s most notorious arms dealers was arrested in Thailand on Thursday as part of an American-led sting operation. He was promptly charged in the United States with conspiracy for trying [...]

Mohamed Elbaradei, head of the UN”s International Atomic Energy Agency, stated that his organization handles 150 cases of nuclear trafficking incidents a year.
From the Los Angeles Times:
He warned of the danger of nuclear material falling into the hands of extremist groups, nurtured on “anger, humiliation and desperation” in the Middle East or elsewhere.
He said the [...]

From the AP:
Members of Congress have warned about the dangers of suitcase nuclear weapons. Hollywood has made television shows and movies about them. Even the Federal Emergency Management Agency has alerted Americans to a threat — information the White House includes on its Web site.
But government experts and intelligence officials say such a threat [...]

From the Christian Science Monitor:
The deadline for Lebanon’s presidential election is less than three weeks away and with no signs of consensus over a candidate among feuding political factions, many Lebanese fear a violent outcome.
The rising tensions come amid heightened speculation that Lebanon’s political factions are arming themselves, resuscitating old militias from the 1975-90 civil [...]

The Washington Post is reporting that Mexican Police are estimating that 100 percent of guns used in drug-related killings in Mexico are smuggled in from the Untied States.
The guns pass into Mexico through the “ant trail,” the nickname for the steady stream of people who each slip two or three weapons across the border every day. [...]

A column in The Bulletin Online argues that the current assumptions regarding the trafficking of nuclear materials is incorrect.
Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley writes that the belief that a nuclear black market exists in the former Soviet Union is based on false premises.
The supposed nuclear black market in the former Soviet Union lacks an important component of [...]

From the Associated Press:
Missile technology, fighter jet parts, night vision goggles and other U.S. wartime equipment increasingly are being illegally smuggled into hostile nations, including China and Iran, the federal government said Thursday.

From the International Herald Tribune:
Tomislav Damnjanovic boasts that he has flown just about every possible cargo, from food and construction materials to cigarettes and weapons - hundreds of thousands of tons of weapons. Over the past 15 years this former airline employee turned airline owner has been a central figure in an arms smuggling [...]

Author Douglas Farah on the Daily Show discussing the methods of global arms trafficker Victor Bout.

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Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah