BANGKOK - New charges filed in the U.S. against suspected arms trafficker Viktor Bout are another misguided bid to have the Russian extradited from Thailand after a previous request was rejected, his lawyer said Thursday. U.S. federal prosecutors in New York filed the charges Wednesday in their pursuit of Bout, a wealthy Russian businessman who has been at the center of a diplomatic tug of war between the U.S. and Russia since his arrest in the Thai capital in 2008. Thailand's attorney general's...
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