UAE dismantles plane of gunrunner Russia wants for Americans
UMM AL-QUWAIN, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The hulking, Soviet-era cargo plane has sat for decades under the blazing sun in a remote corner of the United Arab Emirates, its four jet engines silent after years in the employ of a Russian gunrunner known as the “Merchant of Death.” The emirate of Umm al-Quwain plans a $675 million development on a island just across a lagoon from the deactivated airport where Bout's plane sits.
news.yahoo.comCyr column: The welcome arrest of accused Rwanda war criminal
Accused of leading and helping to finance the horrific 1994 genocide in Rwanda, he topped the list of the worlds most wanted fugitives. In April 2012, an international Special Court convicted former President Charles Taylor of Liberia of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was the last remaining accused Balkans war criminal not yet taken into custody following the brutal fighting in that region during the 1990s. If this brief brutal list indicates such practices are removed from the United States, think again. Arthur I. Cyr is Clausen Distinguished Professor at Carthage College and author of After the Cold War (NYU Press and Macmillan).
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