Bout

Briefly, there is a Russian transport company, Far West, that:
"specializes in consulting work on questions of security in conducting business in regions of the world with unstable environments and hiring personnel for foreign private military companies."
"...connected with the secured transport of commercial shipments from Afghanistan, where we have an office, to ports on the Black Sea. In Afghanistan there is a well-known U.S. air base in Bagram. It is connected by an aerial bridge with a number of other US air bases. For example, with the largest base in Frankfurt-on-Main, that's in Germany, with an intermediary landing in Chkalovsk, in the Moscow area. But the most commercially attractive route seems to be that from Bagram to the US air base in Magas, in Kyrgyzstan."
Far West is connected to these companies: Meteoric Tactical Solutions ; KBR Halliburton; Diligence Iraq LLC . Far West's cooperation with these companies began in the end of 1994 in Angola on the initiative of Russian arms trafficker Victor Bout. Bout, you may recall, is the one Condoleeza Rice advised the CIA about: "You can look, but don't touch." Protected species. Drugs and arms trafficking. You get the idea. Notice, however, the use of US airbases by these private companies and the officially sanctioned co-option of the US Defense Dept in organized crime. Even if Bush goes, these guys will remain.
# posted by anon44

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Ronald Desmet had formerly flown for the Saudi royal family + had been appointed as chairman of the Liberian Aviation Authority's agency in the United Kingdom.  
Using these facts as proof of his integrity, he succeeded even in becoming a member of the Ostend Rotary club. 
After he left Ostend, V. Bout just went on with his sanctions-busting activities. 
According to a 1999 report of HRW, he had founded a subsidiary of Air Cess based at the South African airport of Pietersburg, called Air Pass. 
From Pietersburg, Air Pass, against UN regulations, transported fuel tanks, towing trucks, food and mining equipment to Unita-held areas of Angola.  During its activities, AirPass had a direct link with a South African agency, Norse Air Charter, a subsidiary of the British air charter company Air Foyle of Luton. 
According to The Guardian , it appears that Air Foyle had, through Norse Air Charter, a two-year business partnership with Victor Bout. 
Shortly after South African authorities suspected him of smuggling arms to the Unita rebel forces, V. Bout moved his operations to another company AirCess Swaziland at Manzini airport. 
After the Swazi authorities discovered that his company was transporting military equipment, V. Bout decided to move completely from southern Africa + to make Bangui in the Central African Republic his new African stronghold.  
21.May 2006 
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&;timeperiod=0:10am-11:50pm 11 Sept 2001 
19.Jan.2001 New United Nations sanctions against Afghanistan take effect, adding to those from 1999 . 
The sanctions limit travel by senior Taliban authorities, freeze bin Laden's and the Taliban's assets + order the closure of Ariana Airlines offices abroad. 
The sanctions also impose an arms embargo against the Taliban, but not against Northern Alliance forces battling the Taliban.  
The arms embargo has no visible effect because the sanctions fail to stop Pakistani military assistance.  
The sanctions also fail to stop the illegal trade network the Taliban is secretly running through Ariana . 
Two companies, Air Cess and Flying Dolphin, take over most of Ariana's traffic. 
Air Cess is owned by the Russian arms dealer Victor Bout + 
Flying Dolphin is owned by the United Arab Emirates' former ambassador to the US, who is also an associate of Bout . 
00.000.2000 -In late- despite UN reports linking Flying Dolphin to arms smuggling, the UN gives Flying Dolphin permission to take over Ariana's closed routes, which it does until the new sanctions take effect Bout's operations are still functioning and he has not been arrested.  
00.Oct.2001 Ariana is essentially destroyed in the US bombing of Afghanistan.  
21.May 2006 http://www.ruudleeuw.com/vbout00.htm 
Victor Bout's File Victor Bout is a former KGB major and arms merchant, the most notorious in the Post Cold War era + Victor Bout plays a critical role in areas where the weapons trade has been embargoed by the United Nations. 
Mr. Bout  combines his legal airline activities with illegal ones. 
Victor Bout fleet of aircraft has been based in Central African countries, South Africa + U.A.E. of Sharjah. 
Victor Bout also operated out of Ostend, Belgium + he seems to have had connections with Mexair in Geneva . 21.May 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/arts/music/21pare.html?_r=3&;th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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21.May 2006 The Journal of International Security Affairs | 
The (Not So ... Criminal cartels such as the arms network of Viktor Bout can + do cooperate with terrorist groups + by doing so expand the harm that those groups can ... www.securityaffairs.org/issues/2006/10/ivanov.php 
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Don't they take credit for tearing down that wall?
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Where did the guns go? Remember the 200,000  AK-47s flown out of Bosnia by Viktor Bout, friend to both Al Qaeda and the Bush administration? 
I've heard that they went to Columbia + are intended for shipment to paramilitary forces in Venezuela and Bolivia. 
This report has not been verified. But keep an eye on developments in those countries... Permalink 
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Briefly, there is a Russian transport company, Far West, that:

"specializes in consulting work on questions of security in conducting business in regions of the world with unstable environments and hiring personnel for foreign private military companies."

"...connected with the secured transport of commercial shipments from Afghanistan, where we have an office, to ports on the Black Sea. In Afghanistan there is a well-known U.S. air base in Bagram. It is connected by an aerial bridge with a number of other US air bases. For example, with the largest base in Frankfurt-on-Main, that's in Germany, with an intermediary landing in Chkalovsk, in the Moscow area. But the most commercially attractive route seems to be that from Bagram to the US air base in Magas, in Kyrgyzstan."

Far West is connected to these companies: Meteoric Tactical Solutions (in Angola); KBR Halliburton(in Colombia, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Georgia  + Iraq); Diligence Iraq LLC (in Iraq). 
Far West's cooperation with these companies began in the end of 1994 in Angola on the initiative of Russian arms trafficker Victor Bout. 
Bout, you may recall, is the one Condoleeza Rice advised the CIA about: "You can look, but don't touch."
Protected species. Drugs and arms trafficking. You get the idea. Notice, however, the use of US airbases by these private companies and the officially sanctioned co-option of the US Defense Dept in organized crime. Even if Bush goes, these guys will remain.
# posted by anon44