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Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible Pdf FREE MERCHANT OF DEATH: MONEY, GUNS, PLANES, AND THE MAN WHO MAKES WAR POSSIBLE PDF Douglas Farah,Stephen Braun | 320 pages | 24 Apr 2008 | Turner Publishing Company | 9780470261965 | English | Chichester, United Kingdom Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible by Douglas Farah The ultimate "man in the shadows," Viktor Bout, is an arms dealer. Operating in the criminal and political underworld, he has generally managed to keep his name out of the mainstream media. But in this remarkable and courageous Merchant of Death: Money, two well-respected journalists - Douglas Farah, formerly of The Washington Post, and Stephen Braun, a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times - have ripped the curtain of willful ignorance away from someone who can only be described as one of the world's most despicable people. This book is going to compel you to finish it in one sitting once you start it. A non-fiction thriller that is one of the best I have ever read. Senate carried out an investigation of the role of arms manufacturers in bringing about World War I. Viktor Bout, however, is Planes different sort of businessman, created by a different time. Rather than running giant factories creating artillery and other armaments for international conflicts, he has scavenged the massive arms depots in the former Soviet Union, and then fed the demands of dictators, warlords and the Man Who Makes War Possible bandits in "low-intensity" combat in the poorer countries of the world. Bout's chief area of operations has been Africa - unsurprising considering the constant outbreaks of new and convoluted "insurgencies" and other ill-defined hostilities across the Merchant of Death: Money. Viktor Anatolijevich Bout was, according to official Soviet records, born in in Dushanbe, capital of the then-Communist Central Asian republic of Tajikistan, although in a radio interview in he claimed to have been born in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, another former socialist possession of the Russians. Other sources say he is Ukrainian, possibly of German ancestry, perhaps born in Smolensk. His education is apparently unchallenged: he graduated from the Moscow Military Institute of Foreign Languages - an obvious training center for future spies - and went to Mozambique with a military air unit. The Planes were intent on bringing the former And the Man Who Makes War Possible African colonies into the "socialist camp. Innumerable innocents have perished because of his alleged devotion. Viktor Bout is also fickle in his passions. He enjoys selling weapons to both sides of the wars in which he does business. In the early s, Soviet Russia was turning into the world's outstanding rust belt. Airplanes were falling apart, bombs disintegrating, pilots out of work. What once had been the world's second largest air force was turning into the world's biggest salvage lot. Bout bought up clunky, noisy Antonov and Ilyushin aircraft, and made his first major sales of heavy weapons to the warlords shakily ruling Afghanistan in The Russians had been run out of the country and Bout was Planes by Ahmad Shah Massoud, the charismatic leader of Merchant of Death: Money Northern Alliance. But in the Taliban, enemies of Massoud and his Kabul allies, captured one of Bout's Russian transports when the pilot was moved to offer a radio greeting to an acquaintance serving as a flight controller at the Taliban airport Merchant of Death: Money Kandahar. Bout got out of that by organizing his crew's escape, but Russian sources claim that the crew really owed their freedom to Bout's agreement to supply weapons Guns the Taliban as well as the Kabul regime. Bout's activities were Guns centered in Sharjah, one of the United Arab Emirates, and he had become a player in other conflicts involving Muslims. He organized arms shipments from the Shariah-enforcing dictatorship of Sudan, which brought the world several attempts at genocide even before Darfur, to the Bosnian Muslims, via Slovenia. TWRA was honeycombed with Islamist radicals, and in an Islamic replay of Afghanistan, and anticipation and the Man Who Makes War Possible events today in Iraq, mujahidin from various Arab countries flocked to the Balkans. Perhaps Bout's greatest advantage as an entrepreneur was that he was continuing a supply chain rather than creating a new one. The vicious "liberation movements" in Africa, the Northern Alliance, the Taliban, and the warring ethnic armies in ex-Yugoslavia had all been trained with and used Soviet weaponry for decades. There was no marketing gap; they knew what they were happy with, and Viktor Bout was happy to supply them. The intersection of radical Islam and African gangsterism brought Viktor Bout to the nightmare landscape of Liberia. Thug-in-chief Charles Taylor paid Bout in diamonds, which Bout was smart enough to have checked out by his personal gem expert. The Liberian affair produced perhaps the only humorous item in this gruesome account of human corruption - an aviation company called Air Cess. Apparently, nobody told Bout the meaning Merchant of Death: Money "cess," as in "cesspool," in English. But he might not have objected, since he was profiting in a swamp of filth and blood. Sierra Leone and Liberia had both been established in the 19th century as colonies of freed slaves - the first by the British, the second by the U. But when Bout arrived on the scene, they had other things in common: Liberia's Charles Taylor was the RUF's patron, both countries had produced terrorist "child soldiers," and "blood diamonds" had become the favored currency for high-value commerce - like that in arms. As the millennium drew to a close, U. His Taliban contract and other Muslim-oriented ventures, along with his African blood diamond trade, had put him in and the Man Who Makes War Possible same environment as Osama bin Laden. Byaccording to Farah and Braun, then-adviser on counterterrorism to the White House Richard Clarke called for Merchant of Death: Money arrest, even considering his "extraordinary rendition. Wolosky succeeded in getting the Belgians to issue a warrant for Bout, but Bout fled to Moscow. Inthe U. But the survival powers of Viktor Bout are not to be doubted. The authors of this book note Planes he may have been involved in the shipment of arms to Hizballah during the terrorist movement's war with Israel last year. According to U. Many troubling questions remain about Viktor Bout. His reach is astonishing: Farah and Braun allege that his air fleet was used and the Man Who Makes War Possible deliver weapons to the U. Last year U. ATF considered that compelling reason to continue a high-level investigation of Bout. Bout now lives in a fancy apartment in Moscow, maintaining business connections among former Soviet officials who have also found the military-industrial complex created by Communism to be a rich source of recyclable commodities. Although the United Nations has Guns an air travel ban on him, he commutes from Moscow, in the words of the authors of this book, "with ease across. Western Europe and the former Eastern bloc, ranging from his home base to satellite operations in Moldova, Belgium, and Kazakhstan and arms depots in Bulgaria and the Ukraine. In outstanding service to journalism and the public interest, Farah and Braun have written a book that should be read by everybody interested in knowing the depths of human greed and its involvement with terrorism. It is disturbing to imagine how many Viktor Bouts the collapsed Soviet Union loosed on the world, and whether they might not, as many fear, end up selling nuclear materials or other weapons of mass destruction to groups like al-Qaida or Hizballah. Viktor Bout has lived in the heart of darkness, Planes character in a horrific reality show we could call Apocalypse Forever. As noted, the reach of Bout's network is staggering. His presence is so pervasive that when Nicolas Cage starred in the movie Lord of Warsupposedly based on Bout's life, an aircraft used in the production was and the Man Who Makes War Possible of Bout's Antonovs. Merchant of Death: Money professed to be unimpressed by the film. Kudos to Farah and And the Man Who Makes War Possible. Related Topics: Steven Emerson. Yuri Orlov. Submitted by PazDec 22, Note: IPT will moderate reader comments. We reserve the right to edit or remove any comment we determine to be inappropriate. 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