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Hollywood could hold key to finding Russian pilots lost in Africa

Published: 29 April, 2009, 10:07


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The Hollywood film ‘Lord of War’ starring Nicolas Cage as an alleged Russian arms dealer Victor Bout is now in the center of another scandal involving the disappearance of several cargo crews in Africa in the nineties.

 
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