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and track weapons flows. But there may have been another factor -- the government's dangerous and bumbling use of bad guys. Consider the case of one particular bad guy, Viktor Bout -- a stout, canny Russian air transporter who also happens to be the world's most notorious arms dealer. When the ...
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Iran-made Weapons Less Than 1% Of All Iraq Caches Found
Newshoggers.com — ... Bout, may well know a fair bit about. It's a buyer's market and the Iranians are seeing market forces exclude their produce, with the exception of simple artillery rockets. They're more expensive than the Pakistani arms bazaar's copies coming down the old Silk Road routes and far less effective than easily available and comparitively-priced black market US weapons too. ...

Iran-made Weapons Less Than 1% Of All Iraq Caches Found
Crooks and Liars — ... that ease of purchase, a shared porous border and ubiquitous smuggling, the percentage of Iranian made arms is very low. But there are clear reasons Iran isn't doing so well in the Iraqi arms market. Iranian equipment is less reliable and more expensive than Eastern Block materiel that flooded the region after the 2003 invasion -something which a certain imprisoned international arms dealer, ex-CIA and ex-US military contractor and supplier to despots and terrorists, Viktor Bout, may well know a fair bit about . It's a buyer's market and the Iranians ...

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