Podcast of Media Teleconference and @Oxfam Q&A on #ViktorBout Trial
I've just arrived in NYC for the upcoming trial of Viktor Bout which starts at the NY District Court on Tuesday 11 October at 10am. My first appointment in NY was to join an Oxfam hosted media...
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The trial of the alleged "Merchant of Death"– my 2nd blog for...
via globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com On the opening day of the Viktor Bout trial, Judge Shira Scheinlin invited the unusually large, eighty person jury pool to be seated in the courtroom gallery. That...
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Cold War Redux: Who is the real #ViktorBout? via Global Public Square - CNN.com
via globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com Who is the real Viktor Bout? A former KGB official residing in Moscow who says he has “friends” in high places in Russia? Or the ultimate capitalist, who once had...
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Amid the clanking of teacups, sitting on a blue couch in the Mezzanine area of the swank Hotel Sofitel in Bangkok, Viktor Bout shares a recipe. The concoction appeals to Carlos Sagastume, seated next...
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Beyond a reasonable doubt that #ViktorBout is guilty - but the work has just...
via globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com Yes, this trial ends for me a profound fifteen-year personal odyssey attempting to put Viktor Bout’s arms trafficking empire out of commission. To me, this trial...
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From the #ViktorBout Trial to a New #ArmsTreaty - @kathilynnaustin blogs on...
via pbs.org In a luxury hotel conference room in Bangkok, with his bodyguard keeping watch outside the door, the international arms trafficker Viktor Bout wrote out a purchase order: AK-47s, C4...
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LISTEN: The trial of Viktor Bout offers window into murky world of arms...
Listen to Kathi Lynn Austin's interview on WBEZ here via wbez.org A five-year sting operation led by the Drug Enforcement Agency culminated in the conviction earlier this month of one of the world’s...
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Stopping the Trade in Death - by @kathilynnaustin
Extract from Op-Ed By KATHI LYNN AUSTIN, Read the full story here: The New York Times/ International Herald Tribune. On a dark November morning in 2004, I woke up in my bungalow overlooking Lake Kivu,...
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