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Africans Have Reason to Celebrate: Gun Runner Victor Bout is Behind Bars
9 March 2008
Chicago Tribune
JOHANNESBURG — Africans have an extraordinary reason to celebrate this week. True, for untold thousands of their war dead, the news comes too late. But this is a rare occasion, a bittersweet coda, to remember them by: Victor Bout is finally behind bars.
Most people have never heard of Bout. That's the way he has always liked it.
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