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The Merchant of Death: Arms Dealer Viktor Bout

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The DEA

A DEA unit posing as members of the Colombian rebel group that are FARC broke at a phony deal with Syrian arms dealer Monce Al-Qasar in Madrid. The DEA thinks, all right, if we got Qasar, why not just do exactly the same with Victor Boot? They need a way to lure him out of Moscow where he's supposedly being protected by people in Putin's regime. So they find Andrew Smooley and his old pal from Johannesburg. He's washed up and he's working at a hypodermic needle factory in Tanzania. That's not a good CV.

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