Bout allegedly worked alongside GRU-affiliated, and current Russian deputy prime minister, Igor Sechin in Africa in the 1980s, although both men deny this allegation.

Bout says he has done little more than provide logistics, but former British Foreign Office minister Peter Hain called Bout a " sanctions buster " and described him as " the principal conduit for planes and supply routes that take arms ... from east Europe, principally Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine, to Liberia and Angola ".

The Sharjah network was used by Victor Bout, an arms-smuggling Russian intelligence agent, to provide Taleban with weapons deliveries and other flights between Sharjah and Kandahar.

Due to a UN embargo against arms sales to Liberia at the time, these weapons were largely purchased on the black market through arms smugglers such as Viktor Bout.

A 2000 United Nations report stated, "... Bulgarian arms manufacturing companies had exported large quantities of different types of weapons between 1996 and 1998 on the basis of ( forged ) end-user certificates from Togo ", and that "... with only one exception, the company Air Cess, owned by Victor Bout, was the main transporter of these weapons from Burgas airport in Bulgaria ".

This was the first time Bout was mentioned in connection with arms trading, and the weapons may have been destined for use by União Nacional para a Independencia Total de Angola ( UNITA ), one faction in Angola's 1975 – 2002 civil war.

Bout is suspected of supplying weapons to numerous armed groups in the Second Congo War in the 2000s and may have employed some 300 people and operated 40 to 60 aircraft.

Also in 2004, the Air Operator's Certificate of Aerocom was revoked, possibly due to connections between the airline and suspected weapons smuggler Viktor Bout.

It is thought that Bout was of help to Russia's intelligence agencies, and he is alleged to have connections to ranking Russian officials, including Igor Sechin.

In February 2010, Basil Brush appeared on the Australian game show, Talkin ' ' Bout Your Generation, parts of which were broadcast in 3D.

Stevenson song ) and " Ain't Nothing ' Bout You ", were the top country songs of 1996 and 2001, respectively, according to the Billboard Year-End charts.

Soon after the beginning of the 2001 – present war in Afghanistan, al Qaeda is said to have moved gold and cash out of the country ; reports state that some of the planes used to do this were linked to Bout.

Charged in 2000 with forging documents in the Central African Republic, Bout was convicted in absentia but the charges were later dropped.

The opening bass piano notes were borrowed by Steely Dan for their song " Rikki Don't Lose That Number ", while the opening horn riff was borrowed by Stevie Wonder for his song " Don't You Worry ' Bout a Thing ".

The beaches from Pointe de Bout, through Diamant ( which features right off the coast of Roche de Diamant ), St. Luce, the department of St. Anne and down to Les Salines are popular.

The World Poetry Bout Association sponsored the earliest slam poetry workshops for teenagers, through its " Poetry Education Project " in Taos, New Mexico, in the early 1990s.

Meanwhile, SNK released several fighting games on their Neo-Geo platform, including Samurai Shodown II in 1994, Real Bout Fatal Fury in 1995, The Last Blade in 1997, and annual updates to their The King of Fighters franchise.

Adding a new second keyboard player in the person of Matt Irving, the band issued the live album A Round And A Bout on I. R. S.

On March 6, 2010, Hanson shot dance and other sequences for their upcoming music video of their new single, " Thinking ' Bout Somethin '", at Greenwood Avenue in Tulsa.

Velvet Revolver played " Ain't Talkin ' ' Bout Love ", and Anthony and Hagar performed " Why Can't This Be Love " with Paul Shaffer.

On November 1, 2010, Bow Wow released his first promotional single from the album entitled Ain't Thinkin ' ' Bout You featuring Chris Brown.

* " I'm Crazy ' Bout My Baby " w. Alex Hill m. Fats Waller

The original version of Elvis Costello's hit "( What's So Funny ' Bout ) Peace, Love, and Understanding ", written by Lowe, was released by the band in 1974 on their album The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz, and also featured on the multimillion selling soundtrack of the movie The Bodyguard, where it was performed by Curtis Stigers.

Lowe also wrote "( What's So Funny ' Bout ) Peace, Love, and Understanding ", a hit for Costello.

Lowe wrote some of his best-known compositions while a member of Brinsley Schwarz, including "( What's So Funny ' Bout ) Peace, Love, and Understanding ", a hit for Elvis Costello in 1979, and " Cruel to Be Kind ", a solo hit for Lowe in 1979.

In 1992, "( What's So Funny ' Bout ) Peace, Love, and Understanding " was covered by Curtis Stigers on the soundtrack album to The Bodyguard, an album that sold about 44 million copies world-wide.

During the next three years he released an album each year with Naked & Warm ( 1976 ), Menagerie ( 1977, containing the successful Lovely Day ) and Bout Love ( 1978 ) and Get On Down, the latter song was also on Looking for Mr. Goodbar soundtrack.

The three singles released from the album — " Nothin ' ' Bout Love Makes Sense ", " Probably Wouldn't Be This Way ", and " Something's Gotta Give " — all peaked within the Top 5 on the country charts between 2005 and 2006.

In the PlayStation game Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout, he was voiced by Eddie Frierson.

In Bandai's English release of Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout, Piccolo is voiced by Dan Woren.

For example, real life suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is portrayed as " Vladimir Bout " in Avenger.

It has been asserted by Mansoor Ijaz that in 1996 while the Clinton Administration had begun pursuit of the policy, the Sudanese government allegedly offered to arrest and extradite Bin Laden as well as to provide the United States detailed intelligence information about growing militant organizations in the region, including Hezbollah and Hamas, and that U. S. authorities allegedly rejected each offer, despite knowing of bin Laden's involvement in bombings on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Archbishop Heriger of Mainz offered to anoint Henry according to the usual ceremony, but he refused to be anointed by a high church official — the only King of his time not to undergo that rite — allegedly because he wished to be king not by the church's but by the people's acclaim.

Infuriated at Kerrigan's departure, Moon allegedly offered to pay someone to break McLagan's fingers.

Paul Erdős said, allegedly, about the Collatz conjecture: " Mathematics is not yet ripe for such problems " and also offered $ 500 for its solution.

According to some sources, with these releases Eldritch allegedly won, over Hussey and Adams, a race for a £ 25, 000 advance ( a sum opening the song Jihad on the Gift album ) offered by the publishers to the first member of The Sisters of Mercy to release any output.

He became upset at them, allegedly because of either the small presents they offered him ( in the time-honored compensation for such an instructor ), or because they would not offer bribes as he wanted.

In 1988, while his daughter Sarah was married to The Duke of York, the News of the World printed a story about Ferguson's membership of the Wigmore Club, " a health club and massage parlour in London staffed by girls who, dressed in starched white ' medical ' gowns, allegedly offered à la carte sexual services to members.

Henry allegedly offered $ 15, 000 ( equivalent to approximately $ in today's funds ) to Jones to throw the fight.

The New York Yankees were tipped as favorites and Beltrán allegedly offered them a $ 19 million discount.

This idea has recently been defended by the Spanish historian Vallvé, but purely on the grounds that it is allegedly plausible phonetically and would explain several toponymic facts ( no historical evidence was offered ).

In appreciation, Pound allegedly offered Brandt an introduction to Man Ray, in whose Paris studio Brandt would assist in 1930.

The San Francisco Giants allegedly offered him a one-year deal, but Wills turned them down.

The article described a meeting between Perle, the arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, and Saudi businessman Harb Zuhair, in which Perle allegedly offered to influence American foreign policy in Saudi Arabia in exchange for investment in Trireme.

On 5 June 2008, Sky Sports reported that Ronaldo had expressed an interest in moving to Real Madrid if they offered him the same amount of money the team had allegedly promised him earlier in the year.

The auction also offered the sofa where the senior Ford allegedly claimed to have had a romantic " encounter " with Marilyn Monroe ($ 1, 750 ).

Tantalus was endlessly punished in Tartarus, because he allegedly killed his son Pelops and sacrificially offered him to the Olympians, a reference to the suppression of human sacrifice.

In 2009, the state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit against the company alleging violation of their Consumer Fraud Act surrounding events with a Bruce Springsteen concert, where tickets were allegedly offered for sale on their website which did not actually exist.

However, his most important achievement is the complete translation of the Bible into Slovene, which he allegedly wrote to a large extent at Turjak Castle under the protection of the Carniolan governor, Herbard VIII von Auersperg (), and Herbard's son Christoph von Auersperg, who are said to have provided for the translator Dalmatin a " Wartburg "- type sanctuary as had been offered to Martin Luther by Frederick the Wise, the Elector of Saxony.

In 1883, Shapira offered the so-called Shapira Strips, fragments of ancient parchment allegedly found near the Dead Sea, for sale to the British Museum, which exhibited two of the strips.

Choudary, an Indian, was allegedly offered a job as an ethnic affairs advisor or board member.

The press speculated about a possible plot against Pizzi: allegedly she had been originally chosen to perform " Viale d ' autunno " but was then dismissed, possibly out of spite or jealousy, and the song offered to Sandon's and Boni.

He was under consideration for a deal to write three novels revolving around an unnamed British spy but rejected the offer, allegedly because his publisher wanted three more Nikki Heat novels and offered him more money, but secretly because accepting would have ended his collaboration with Beckett.

After a series of contacts, St. Louis, Missouri lawyer Paul Dillon allegedly offered the head of the federal parole board payment to approve a transfer to Leavenworth for the Outfit mobster.

The car was offered for sale in 1972 for approximately 3, 000 pounds, and was allegedly broken up in the late 1980s, with the owner using the running gear in a kit car.