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Victor Bout: Arms Dealer Poses Threat to U.S.-Russia Relations

They call him the "merchant of death," but the most dangerous thing about Russian Victor Bout isn't the weapons he trades. It's the U.S. officials he might take down with him.

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Victor Bout looks up from a jail cell as he is processed in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, March 8, 2008. (Photo: David Longstreath / AP Photo)

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