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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 03:24 AM Oct 2016

Russia Today defending international arms-dealers and cocaine-smugglers

Oh, this is so fun.

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https://www.rt.com/politics/362220-no-trust-in-american-objectiveness/

Two Russians have been arrested in the US for trying to export "sensitive" electronics without proper license.

Coming to their defense, Russia Today lambasts the US justice System as biased against Russians, bringing up how Viktor Bout and Konstantin Yaroshenko were arrested under dubious circumstances and sentenced in the US.

What RT does NOT mention in their defense is that Viktor Bout was a notorious international arms-dealer, a legend, with multiple international arrest-warrants on his name. (Remember "Lord of War" with Nicolas Cage? That's Viktor Bout.)
What the article also fails to mention is that Yaroshenko was arrested during an anti-drug sting-operation because he agreed to fly 700kg of cocaine for an african drug-cartel.

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