Will Captured Illegal Arms Dealer Victor Bout, the "Merchant of Death" Link Democrats to the FARC Terror Group?
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, August 20, 2010, 8:20 AM
On March 1, 2008, FARC Rebel leader Raul Reyes was killed when his Ecuadorean camp was raided by Colombian forces. Reyes was left exposed after Venezuelan tyrant and fellow Marxist Hugo Chavez placed a call to the satellite phone of the narco-terrorist. This allowed the army to find the exact location where Reyes was hiding.
FARC Leader Raul Reyes was killed by Colombian forces in 2008. (LePoint)
After the attack on the Marxist FARC terror camp by the Colombian forces, two computers belonging to the FARC leader were seized from the campsite (Video HERE). These computers contained a goldmine of information on the organization including:
– FARC connections with Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa
– Records of $300 million offerings from Hugo Chavez
– Thank you notes from Hugo Chavez dating back to 1992
– Uranium purchasing records
– Admit to killing the sister of former President Cesar Gaviria
– Admit to planting a 2003 car bomb killing 36 at a Bogota upper crust club
– Directions on how to make a Dirty Bomb
– Information that led to the discovery of 60 pounds of uranium
– Letter to Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi asking for cash to buy surface-to-air missiles
– Meetings with “gringos” about Barack Obama
– Information on Russian illegal arms dealer Viktor Bout who was later captured
– FARC funding Correa’s campaign
– Cuban links to FARC
– Links to US Democrats
– $480,000 of FARC cash in Costa Rican safe house
– $100,000 to President Correa’s campaign for election
– Chavez attempts to buy arms for FARC through the Belarus regime
– FARC branches in 17 countries including Germany and Switzerland
– FARC terrorists expanded operations to 17 countries
– FARC terrorists expanded operations to Germany and Switzerland
Also, just days after the computers were discovered Viktor Bout, allegedly one of the world’s most notorious arms traffickers, was arrested in Thailand. The Spanish-language press reported that he was located thanks to the FARC computer files. The U.S. Department of Justice charged Bout with conspiracy to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, conspiring to kill Americans, conspiring to kill US officers or employees and conspiring to acquire and use an anti-aircraft missile.
Interpol later confirmed that the computers had not been tampered with by the Colombian government. The findings discredited Venezuelan assertions that the files were bogus and gave Colombia the international backing it sought.
The FARC Computers also contained documents that reportedly showed US Democrats were secretly reaching out to the FARC terrorists. Not only were the FARC terrorists of Colombia hoping Barack Obama would win the presidential election because he was most aligned with the Colombian Marxist group but the terrorists were also reportedly communicating with US Democrats on the sly.
Today the Thai government agreed to extradite Viktor Bout to the United States for trial.
The AP reported:
A Thai appeals court on Friday ordered the extradition of suspected Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout to the United States, angering Moscow but paving the way to put the man dubbed the “Merchant of Death” on trial.
Shackled in leg irons, Bout vowed to prove his innocence in an American courtroom.
“We will face the trial in the United States and win it,” Bout told reporters in Russian after the verdict, according to Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency.
The court ordered Bout’s extradition within three months, overturning a lower court’s ruling in August 2009 that rejected a U.S. request that he face trial there. No further judicial appeals are possible in Thailand…
…Bout, a 43-year-old former Soviet air force officer, is reputed to be one of the world’s most prolific arms dealers. He has allegedly supplied weapons that fueled civil wars in South America, the Middle East and Africa, with clients including Liberia’s Charles Taylor and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and both sides of the civil war in Angola.
The head of a lucrative air transport empire, Bout has long evaded U.N. and U.S. sanctions aimed at blocking his financial activities and restricting his travel. He has denied any involvement in illicit activities and claims he ran a legitimate business.
The 2005 Nicolas Cage film, “Lord of War,” is loosely based on Bout’s life.
Bout’s nickname arose from his 1990s-era notoriety for running a fleet of aging Soviet-era cargo planes to conflict-ridden hotspots in Africa. A high-ranking minister at Britain’s Foreign Office first used it in 2000 to single out Bout for his alleged arms role in Africa.
Dressed in an orange prison uniform, Bout stood after the verdict was announced. Tears welled in his eyes as he hugged his wife and daughter, who wept. He was led out of the courtroom and back to a Bangkok prison where court officials said he would remain until the extradition is processed.
“This is the most unfair decision possible,” his wife, Alla Bout, told reporters, speaking in Russian through a translator. “It is known the world over that this is a political case.”
Bout’s arrest by Thai authorities in March 2008 landed Bout in prison for the first time and set off a legal tug-of-war between the U.S. and Russia.
The trial of Victor Bout may be revealing in a number of ways. Will he be able to link the Marxist FARC terror group to democrats?
We will see.
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jim m commented:
What on earth makes you think that putting the putting the prosecution of this man into the hands of the government will result in the revelation that there was any political connection to this guy what-so-ever?
If you wanted to ensure that whatever evidence there was got scrubbed of connections to the democratic party this was the way to do it.
Granny commented:
I have to agree with jim m. Any proof that might exist will be buried post-haste by the “justice department” installed by the Obama regime. Hope Interpol kept a copy of those hard drives somewhere safe. Expect the dude to walk!
bg commented:
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re: – Letter to Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi
asking for cash to buy surface-to-air missiles
[In 1985, the year following Wright and Farrakhan's trip to Libya, Obama, then a Chicago community activist, visited Wright's church. In Wright, it was reported, Obama "had found both a spiritual mentor and a role model."
[..]
Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, visited Libya this week to
meet Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and discussed how to “unify, mobilize and organize” American Muslims for elections in the United States this year.
Colonel Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, quoted by the state press agency, said: “Our confrontation with America used to be like confronting a fortress from outside. Today we have found an opening to enter the fortress and
to confront it from within.”]
re: – Meetings with “gringos” about Barack Obama
[6. The gringos will ask for an appointment with the minister to solicit him to communicate to us his interest in discussing these topics. They say that the new president of their country will be Obama and that they
are interested in your compatriots. Obama will not support “Plan Colombia” nor will he sign the TLC (Colombian Free Trade agreement). Here we responded that we are interested in relations with all governments in equality of conditions and that in the case of the US it is required a public pronouncement expressing their interest in talking with the FARC given their eternal war against us.]
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iconoclast commented:
With 70 members of Congress outright socialists, of course several of them are perfectly comfortable meeting and supporting FARC. Heck, several publically supported Saddam Hussein back before the Iraq War.
Moriyah commented:
He will be protected by the lover of terrorists and hater of America..Who can celebrate this? We will see that justice does not live in America as long as these bastards occupy the Black House…
Kevin P commented:
Heck – several support Saddam Hussein DURING the Iraq War.
bg commented:
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re: Democrats were secretly reaching out to the FARC
[Colombian Sen. Piedad Cordoba (left) is currently under investigation by the Colombian attorney general for ties to the FARC. Cordoba claims that Speaker Nancy Pelosi was sending messages to the FARC terrorists. Cordoba also claimed during FARC negotiations that Pelosi had assigned Rep. Jim McGovern, as the point man. Captured FARC documents confirmed in March that Mr. McGovern had been working with an American go-between, who had been offering the rebels help in undermining Colombia’s elected and popular government.]
Farcing Dems
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wow commented:
Never fear … our justice department will do its work of concealing everything that may compromise this regime. All this DoJ is good for is going after Arizona, Sheriff Arpaio, protecting criminals, etc.
Ronnie commented:
bg
August 20th, 2010 | 8:48 am | #7
I’m sure the evidence is there bg, but will it ever be presented in a court of law, one that happens to have the authority (and willingness) to come down hard on traitors? I’ve yet to see this in our present political atmosphere.
Everyone seems bought and paid for – even a large segment of the military.
retire05 commented:
McGovern’s connection to FARC was outed two years ago. He is a huge opponent of the Columbia Free Trade Agreement, a policy that was encouraged by President Bush, and therefore, strongly opposed by McGovern.
Years ago, J. Edgar Hoover wrote a book about the traitors in our midsts, and how they infiltrated every nook and cranny of our society, including the government. Things are no different now, with 70 Democratic Congressmen who have strong ties to the Socialist Party (with their “progressive” caucus started by the socialist, Bernie Sanders. These are people who think that America is an evil empire, and need to be brought down a notch or too (aided and abetted by the current administration).
McGovern needs to go down and his connections and dealings with FARC need to be made public.
aprilnovember811 commented:
There better be an independent source who holds the evidence, because you can’t trust this Justice Department. Remember, Eric Holder has a soft spot for terrorists. Don’t let them touch the evidence.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Obama and Hillary Clinton also had a soft spot for Manuel Zelaya.
mike191 commented:
McGovern is a traitor who should be charged with treason.
bg commented:
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Ronnie @ 9:10 am #9
re: [Everyone seems bought and paid for
– even a large segment of the military.]
unfortunately, i must agree..
just a sample:
Inside Our Government, Armed With Our Secrets
From Influence to Insurrection
Failing at force protection: The misguided
Pentagon report on the Ft. Hood massacre
Terror czar deserves honorary membership in the Muslim Brotherhood
more here & here..
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bg commented:
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retire05 @ 9:10 am #10
re: [they infiltrated every nook and cranny of our society]
been saying that about Obama’s MB for at least a few years now..
“The Project”
read all about The Muslim Brotherhood Project here..
and as i’ve posted ad nauseum,
the Marxists & Islamists are in bed together,
they’re also in communion with “social justice”..
UCC member Sen. Barack Obama discusses faith and politics
["I believe that democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal values," Obama said. "Social justice and national security are both universal values, values that may originate for some in their religious beliefs, but are shared by us all."]
”I am certain nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after the mirage of social justice.”
“I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term ’social justice’.”
~Friedrich A. von Hayek
but what can one expect when the Obama Administration Stacks the Deck with Islamists, and they believe him to be a step forward in the project of Islamization and the long term goal of Islamist domination??
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bg commented:
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ps re: bg #15
“citizens in uniform”
[The armed forces, therefore, according to the decree issued by Chávez last July 22nd, in the practice will be responsible for enforcing by means of arms the failed socialist constitutional reform. To that end, in order to dilute the country into its militia-like organization, will "prepare and organize the people for integral defense." In addition, it will "forge alliances or coalitions with the armed forces of foreign countries." The ongoing military revolution will have not borders. At the end, there is one single purpose -retired military officer Chávez Frías will boast his five-sun insignia appropriate for his new rank of commander in chief, awarded by himself, and not by the grace of God.]
Obama’s ‘Civilian Security Force’
[Advocates of limited government are concerned about comments by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) regarding his national service plans and views on the "burden of global citizenship."]
Senator Obama, Citizen of the World
http://tinyurl.com/2vr7r5h
[European socialists and Middle Eastern Muslims are wildly enthusiastic about Senator Obama, because he styles himself a citizen of the world who, like all liberal- progressive- socialists, aims for world government.
American liberal- progressive- socialism, in the person of Senator Obama, is a carbon copy of European socialism, and Islamic jihadists recognize that socialism offers no opposition to their ruthless jihad to enslave the entire world.
For historical perspective, let's look to one of France's leading socialist theoreticians, the late Jean- François Revel. As I wrote at the time of M. Revel's death in May, 2006:
Jean- François Revel, who died last week at the age of 82, was that exceedingly rare person: a French intellectual who didn't despise the United States, an intellectual who understood the cancerous prognosis of liberalism.
Revel's 1983 "How Democracies Perish" described liberalism's debilitating effect on confronting the threat of domination by the Soviet Union. His observations apply equally today in our long-term struggle against Islamic jihad.]
RTWT!!
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bigL commented:
Thomas Sowell discusses the dismantling of America,currently. Happening so fast. Michelle Malkin delineates the snatch of millions more acres of land in the west into the Federal maw. a lot of it is great oil drilling sites. Also no lumbering, no hunting,/fishing, no nothing. but it looks like the socialists re setting up a country in a country.Crazy but Hillary is granting asylum to 20,000 Hamas and Palis. Where are they gonna go?
aro5o75 commented:
I wonder if Nance will want to investigate those investigating her connection to FARC.
bg commented:
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bigL @ 11:59 am #18
re: [Where are they gonna go?]
more like where they going to help put US??
October surprise..
not so much theory any more..
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Marsh commented:
What? A leftist narco-terrorist group hates white people and has extensive ties to… the left? I am shocked by this!
*yawn*
Yet more deranged communist radicalism and bigotry from the left. What’s new?