Arms dealer jailed for 30 years

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

A Syrian-born arms dealer has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for conspiring to sell millions of dollars of weapons to Colombian rebels.

A New York court found Monzer al-Kassar guilty of masterminding sales of arms, including surface-to-air missiles and grenade launchers to left-wing rebels.

Prosecutors said he knew Farc rebels would use them against US operations aimed at disrupting the cocaine trade.

His Chilean associate Luis Felipe Moreno Godoy was sentenced to 25 years.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7909411.stm

[Chulanowa]

1. Proper leading sentence...

A Syrian-born arms dealer has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for conspiring to challenge Lockheed Martin's monopolies

[Optical.Catalyst]

2. Just goes to show ya', step outside the operating area defined by the CIA and it results in prison

When it comes to the cocaine trade, arms trade, or governments in South America, participants have three choices:

1. Work for the CIA

2. Go to prison for 30 years

3. Die

[Javaman]

3. aka he was cutting into US arms sales. nt

[nolabels]

4. The drug traffickers probably are not too happy either

No doubt there is a glut of that white nose candy stuff on the market :shrug: