A person named Viktor Bout who the Drug Enforcement Agency accuses of being a weapons dealer was extradited to the U.S. from Thailand Tues, a development that aroused anger from the Kremlin. Nicholas Cage has Bout (who has been detained in Thailand since 2008) to thank for the lead role in the 2005 cinema product “Lord of War,” which was depending on the arms dealer’s alleged adventures. Bout is fated to appear before United States of America prosecutors eager to pin him with the terrorism label and Russia is irritated by that fact, a state of affairs that could, or could not be interpreted as an inconvenient pothole in the road to U.S./Russian reconciliation.

The reason behind worry by Russians about Viktor Bout

Tuesday, Viktor Bout made his way to the United States of America Washington spent two years working to get him extradited on terrorism charges. Moscow tried to get Bout set free, however the Thai government refused. Because he tried to sell $5 million in weapons to the Columbian rebels in 2008, he was arrested by the Royal Thai Police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Bout denies being an arms dealer. His business was supposedly concerning delivering goods. Inaccessible places throughout the world were where he focused on delivering. Bout having Russian military intelligence is what many think. U.S. officials finding out about it would be the major concern.

Merchant of Death being tracked

Viktor Bout is suspected of furnishing ruthless warlords within the Middle East, South The United States and Africa with weapons. Bout was a previous Russian military lieutenant who supposedly employed about 300 individuals in his global weapons operation. The Taliban was allegedly being supplied with weapons by Bout. In 2002 in Afghanistan this happened. He went underground, and DEA agents finally caught up to him in 2008, posing as arms buyers for Columbian rebels. Having missiles, drones, landmines and other weapons was what a DEA indictment is accusing Bout of.

United States of America and Russia both using a person

The extradition was called illegal and politically motivated by Russian foreign ministry as Viktor Bout was sent to the U.S.. This might hurt the relationship between the U.S. and Russia a bit. President Barack Obama and Dimitry Medvedev have been working on relations between the two countries. Others say that if last summer’s Russian spy scandal featuring Chapman did little to disrupt the new spirit of detente, Viktor Bout is not much of a threat. What could be a setback is the new Republican advantage in the U.S. Congress, which is set to debate the ratification of a new U.S./Russia nuclear treaty.

Details from

Washington Post

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/16/AR2010111600072.html?hpid=topnews

Christian Science Monitor

csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2009/1022/who-is-viktor-bout

Telegraph

telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/8137270/Viktor-Bout-extradition-takes-shine-off-US-Russian-reset.html