Faouzi Jaber was caught trying to sell weapons from Ukraine to agents of the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) posing as guerilla fighters belonging to the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of ColombiaFARC or FARC-EP, is either a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization or a drug cartel based in Colombia. It claims to represent the rural poor in a struggle against Colombia's wealthier classes, and opposes United States influence in Colombia, neo-imperialism, monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the usual raft of complaints. It funds itself principally through ransom kidnappings, taxation of the drug trade, extortion, shakedowns, and
donations. It has lately begun calling itself
Bolivarianand is greatly admired by Venezuela's President-for-Life Chavez, who seemingly fantasizes about living in the woods and kidnapping people himself. He provides FARC with safe areas along the border.
(FARC), according to Czech media.
He faces a life sentence in the United States after his extradition from the Czech Republic several weeks ago, police spokeswoman Marketa Janovska said in a statement.
Faouzi was tossed in the calaboose
Please don't kill me!
in April 2014 along with two other men of Lebanese-origin who were subsequently released in February 2016, provoking an angry reaction from the United States embassy in Prague.
Ali Taan Fayyad and Khaled Marabi were freed as part of a deal to secure the release of five Czech citizens kidnapped in Leb in July 2015, among whom was Fayyad's lawyer.
The two men were accused by American officials of preparing liquidations of US