Whoa! Viktor Bout, one of the kingpins of the black-market weapons trade, was actually arrested in Thailand. To call this huge is an understatement: Bout profited off nearly every West and Central African conflict of the last 20 years, and CNN says British intelligence believes he even sold guns to al-Qaeda. If you believe in the death penalty, Bout is why; and if you don’t, Bout might make you at least momentarily reconsider. The SOB has probably sold his movie rights already.

To read more about Bout (sorry), check out former WashPost reporter Doug Farah over at the Counterterrorism Blog, who has tracked Bout journalistically for over a decade.