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Belgian arms trader jailed in Alabama


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Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:50:00 +0000

In a six-count federal indictment, Jacques Monsieur is accused of trying to help Iran get fighter jets. How Mobile, Ala., fits in isn't totally clear.

Reporting from Washington - The alleged arms deal involved sit-down meetings in Paris and London, a front company in Kyrgyzstan and shipments via Colombia to the ultimate destination, Iran.

But today, the notorious Belgian trafficker charged with arranging the scheme finds himself in a federal jail in Mobile, Ala.

U.S. authorities say Jacques Monsieur, a swashbuckling 56-year-old known as "the Fox" and "the Field Marshal," conspired with an undercover agent to buy engines and parts for F-5 fighter planes for Iran.


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