Underreported: The World’s Most Notorious Arms Trafficker

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

The Russian entrepreneur Viktor Bout is the world’s most notorious arms trafficker. On today’s Underreported, Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun, authors of “The Merchant of Death” in the current issue of Foreign Policy, explain how Mr. Bout got so powerful, and why he hasn’t been stopped.

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