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Alleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout (C) is escorted by court security personnel for a hearing at the Crime Court in Bangkok on December 22, 2008. Bout is accused of being a global gun-runner since the 1990s, and is believed to have supplied arms to the Taliban militia, Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda terror network and former Liberian leader Charles Taylor. AFP PHOTO/PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL