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KEY SUPPLIER: Bout allegedly supplied weapons to Taleban fighters in Afghanistan as well as to warlords of the Northern Alliance who opposed them. -- REUTERS
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IN CUSTODY: Arms dealer Viktor Bout at a press conference at the Thai police headquarters in Bangkok, after his arrest following an elaborate sting operation. -- AFP
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ZAIRE ROLE: Bout allegedly sold arms to rebels in Zaire fighting the despotic rule of Mobutu Sese Seko (above). Later, he helped Mobutu to flee Zaire, now called Congo.
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DESPOT: Former president Charles Taylor, accused of atrocities in Liberia, was allegedly helped by Bout to gain illicit access to diamonds in neighbouring Sierra Leone.
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