Thailand's Bamboo Diplomacy Blows in the Wind
The controversial case of suspected Russian gun runner Viktor Bout is unending. Bout has been locked in a Thai jail since 2008 after US agents posing as rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia lured him to Bangkok, allegedly with the promise of an arms sale.
The Americans want Bout for what he knows, and the Russians want him, presumably f…
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