Mr. Bout agreed to sell 100 surface-to-air missiles, machine guns, grenades and five tons of C-4 explosives, prosecutors said.
His booming reaction was prompted by the trade-show floor a sea of displays and kiosks from weapons companies hawking missiles, machine guns, tanks, and bombs like they were next year's luxury sedans.
Last week the State Department and the Pentagon jointly announced the largest arms sale in U.S. history -- dozens of fighter planes and attack helicopters supplemented by transport helicopters, over 16,000 bombs, 10,000-plus laser guided missiles, machine guns, ammunition, night vision devices and other weapons systems too numerous to describe here.
On the outskirts of the West Bank town of Ramallah, Israeli soldiers fired an antitank missile and machine guns at unfinished apartment buildings from which Palestinian gunmen had opened fire, while stone-throwing teenagers battled soldiers on the street.
Government forces and Ethiopian troops supporting the government responded with missiles, heavy machine guns and mortar rounds.
United States Air Force officials say that the Baghdad area is thick with surface-to-air missiles, heavy machine guns and antiaircraft artillery.
Israeli helicopters fired missiles and machine guns at Beit Jala through the night after gunmen opened fire on Gilo, a Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem.
It is a cast bronze cabinet in the same shape as Boulle's, with fighter jets, missiles, bombs, machine guns and other modern symbols of power carved on the doors, rather than scenes from antiquity.
Diaa Mohsen and another man, Mohammed Malik, also of Jersey City, were charged last week with attempting to violate the federal Arms Export Control Act after they allegedly discussed the purchase of missiles and machine guns with an undercover agent and an informant.
Before he introduced himself to jurors at the US district court in New York on Wednesday, assistant attorney Brendan McGuire stood before them and said: "One hundred surface to air missiles, 20,000 machine guns, 20,000 grenades, 740 mortars, 350 sniper rifles, 10 million rounds of ammunition and five tonnes of C-4 explosives".
