Hi All ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Hough >>MONROVIA (Reuters) - A Russian-made transport plane crashed >>and blew up early on Friday near Liberia's main >>international airport, killing at least one person on >>board, the West African country's government said. Soviet-made actually, but if you want to be nitpicky, it is Ukrainian made. I can hardly wait until Reuters reports a crash of a Canadian-made Boeing. After all, the Canadians make like a bolt or nut or something like that. ;-) >>The government gave no indication of who owned the plane, >>where it had come from, where it was heading when it >>crashed or what it was carrying. Who owned the plane? Probably someone of the like of Viktor Bout (or Viktor Butt or one of his other aliases) Where had it come from? God only knows Where was it heading? Probably Sierra Leone What was it carrying? Knowing that area of the world and the An-12 and other cargo operations in the region, my guess it would have been carrying guns and other weapons destined for either the black market or one of the warring factions in Sierra Leone, or maybe even Liberia. This is exactly the type of operation which Viktor Bout is renowned for, and I wouldn't put it past him.