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Latest news on Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who was convicted in the United States of conspiring to sell weapons to a terrorist organization. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. In 2008, U.S. undercover agents posing as representatives of a Colombian terrorist organization approached Bout about selling them weapons. Bout agreed to sell them surface-to-air missiles and other weapons, and he was arrested in Thailand in March 2008. He was extradited to the United States in 2010 and convicted in 2011.