Who is Victor Bout?

For years, particularly since early 2001, thousands of articles were written about Victor Bout. Almost 99% of these articles are copied from each other, and it all can be sources to the article that made Johan Peleman rich and famous. The December 2000 UN report on Angola known as S/200/1225, and which is the core of Victor Bout's tale, and the alleged link between Richard Chichakli and Victor Bout.

Aviation, Arms trading, the UN, Africa, Diamond, wars, people manipulating governments, mysterious aircraft flying everywhere, and so on. This was the first story Condoleezza Rice heard as a secretary of state according to Farah's book. She was told that the endless fleet of Soviet era aircraft she was showed, all of it, belongs to one man called Victor Bout. She was also told that the man who runs the show is Richard Chichakli. The rest, is the story you become familiar with and the question to answer remains, who is Victor Bout?

Almost all you read about Victor Bout came from some internet articles written by people who never seen or heard Victor Bout, but they had no problem in copying each other and adding some spices each in turn. For a matter of fact, most of what written about Victor can be sourced either to Johan Peleman reports, or to stories promulgated by Douglas Farah, or to a report by Landsman who was met Victor in 2003. How much of what you have read is real, "almost nothing" said Richard Chichakli. 

• Peleman faked the S/2000/1225, and therefore he is yet to answer why he lied about communicating with Richard Chichakli as he stated in article-6 of the report. Peleman was challenged to answer but he failed to do so for the last five years. Peleman was able to maintain his creation by writing up more report of the same for the UN. Then, someone in the UN questioned how come Victor Bout is always the center-piece of all Peleman's report regardless of location. Peleman's run ended in 2003 as the integrity, independence, and truthfulness of his report on Somalia was questioned. The loss of the UN platform caused Peleman all of his Bout-associated fame and he; therefore, reverted to use the internet and media to maintain the Bout story alive for a bit longer; however, by 2004 Peleman faded away after being dismissed as a UN contractors. 

• Douglas Farah picked-up the story of Victor Bout that was left by Peleman. Farah who is a known propaganda factor for the Bush regime, was benefiting mainly from the 9/11 events by making up stories and government-financed books about Osama Bin Laden. Farah used the story of Victor Bout to replace his no-longer interesting material about Bin Laden. Overnight, with the help of Attorney General Gonzales he was declared an expert in the business of Victor Bout and was called by the DOJ to testify before the congress.  Farah created several websites under different names, and used his relations to the Washington Post, and other freelancers and journalist, to continuously publish and re-publish materials about Victor Bout. Farah also organized several "blog" group to frenzy-feed, republishing the stories he creates. Some of the well-know group was led by a person that called himself the "Yourkshire Ranter", and who teamed-up with Farah to make-up the buzz over the internet. Example of the organized criminal activities practiced by Farah and his group is "operation fireball." Although sustained for a while, the absence of real evidence or actual persons and events to support the false promulgated material caused the public to shy-away from these sites. The sites quickly disappeared or changed subject.  The arrest of Victor Bout in March of 2008 rapidly put an end to Farah's expertise-run and sudden fame. The end of the Bush regime is likely to further expose Farah and his network.

• Peter Landsman's article did not include the actual conversation that took place between Landsman and Victor because it was written for a movie script from the very beginning. Landsman lied to profit from the story, and for a little while succeeded. However, as the news of his made-up tale reached the studio, the deal was over and he went away as fast as he came to the scene.

Richard is a friend of Victor Bout and a person who know Victor very well, that is what the US government admits and wanted you to believe. The point is that the US government never, ever questioned Richard about Victor Bout nor did ever approached Richard with inquiry regarding Victor or his business affairs.

The answer is, the US government does not want you to know the reality about Victor Bout. The reality will hurt the personal financial interest and the political career of so many people in the United States, and the England.  Those who think corruption is limited to the third worlds, they know very little about the US and the Bush family.

So, who is Victor Bout?   This is Victor's answer, as to Richard's answer, you cannot hear it until THEY allow you to do so.

1 - An expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable source of knowledge or skill whose judgement is accorded authority and status by the public or their peers. Experts have prolonged or intense experience, practice or education in a particular field that goes significantly beyond any general or shallow appreciation. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert)

2 - De facto is a Latin expression that means "in fact" or "in practice". It is commonly used as opposed to de jure (meaning "by law") when referring to matters of law or governance or technique (such as standards), that are found in the common experience as created or developed without or against a regulation. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defacto)

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