Comments on: Victor Bout Trial Demonstrates Gaps in U.S. Atrocity Prevention Strategy http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2011/10/21/victor-bout-trial-demonstrates-gaps-in-u-s-atrocity-prevention-strategy/ Human Rights First builds respect for human rights and the rule of law to help ensure the dignity to which everyone is entitled and to stem intolerance, tyranny, and violence. Fri, 24 May 2013 21:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bob Walton http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/2011/10/21/victor-bout-trial-demonstrates-gaps-in-u-s-atrocity-prevention-strategy/#comment-47070 Bob Walton Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:08:31 +0000 http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/?p=15295#comment-47070 In a Russian Foreign Ministry statement published on the ministry’s Web site, Aleksandr K. Lukashevich, a spokesman, said the Russian government would seek to have Mr. Bout returned home, but did not indicate how it would do so. Ask yourself, "have there been prisoner swaps between Moscow and the West, our "innocents" for their convicted?" Of course jay-walking can be a very serious offense but the Ruskies have never been known to grab a tourist, have they? Could it be, the Ruskies already have someone we want back? In a Russian Foreign Ministry statement published on the ministry’s Web site, Aleksandr K. Lukashevich, a spokesman, said the Russian government would seek to have Mr. Bout returned home, but did not indicate how it would do so.

Ask yourself, “have there been prisoner swaps between Moscow and the West, our “innocents” for their convicted?” Of course jay-walking can be a very serious offense but the Ruskies have never been known to grab a tourist, have they? Could it be, the Ruskies already have someone we want back?

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