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http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/contract/2004/1213bout.htm
Newsweek
December 13, 2004

"In an effort to crack down on one of the world's most notorious international criminals, President George W. Bush last summer signed an order barring U.S. citizens from doing business with Russian arms trafficker Victor Bout. But not long afterward, U.S. officials discovered Bout's tentacles were wider than anticipated: for much of this year, NEWSWEEK has learned, a Texas charter firm allegedly controlled by Bout was making repeated flights to Iraq—courtesy of a Pentagon contract allowing it to refuel at U.S. military bases. One reason for the flights, sources say, was that the firm was flying on behalf of Kellogg Brown & Root, the division of Halliburton hired to rebuild Iraq's oilfields."


http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:BaihkhPd4X8J:www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/sierraleone/bout.html+halliburton+illegal+arms&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=19&gl=us
"The Los Angeles Times details reports indicating that companies linked to reputed Russian arms trafficker Victor Bout have received millions of dollars from U.S. contractors in Iraq, including Halliburton subsidiary KBR."

"...reports on allegations against Victor Bout and the United Nations description of Bout as perhaps the number-one arms smuggler in the world. The article also investigates evidence of Bout's involvement with arms shipments to Afghanistan, the Taliban and Al Qaeda. (New York Times, February 26, 2002)."
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Joe Wilson's report was the EXCUSE to "out" VPW and put the kibosh on the B-J enterprise.