A US jury has found a former Russian arms dealer guilty on charges of attempting to sell arms to a Colombian group.<br /><br />Viktor Bout, a former Soviet air force officer who was the subject of a book titled Merchant of Death, was arrested in Bangkok in 2008 after a US Drug Enforcement Administration sting in which US informants posed as Colombian rebels.<br /><br />Bout was extradited in August 2010 after a Thai court overturned an earlier rejection of an extradition request by the US authorities.<br /><br />Prosecutors said Bout stood to make millions from supplying weapons to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) rebel group.<br /><br />Kristen Saloomey reports from New York.
