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Team of contract killers led by ex-soldier 'Rambo' busted, prosecutors say
By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News
A former Army sergeant nicknamed Rambo has been charged with recruiting globe-trotting hitmen to act as muscle for drug-traffickers in a scheme that prosecutors said could have been "ripped from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel."
Three members of the gang were ready to assassinate a federal agent for an $800,000 payoff, and one of them boasted that murder-for-hire was "fun," according to court papers.
"The charges tell a tale of an international band of mercenary marksmen who enlisted their elite military training to serve as hired guns for evils ends," said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
"Three of the defendants were ready, willing and eager to take cold hard cash to commit the cold-blooded murders of a DEA agent and an informant."
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By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News
A former Army sergeant nicknamed Rambo has been charged with recruiting globe-trotting hitmen to act as muscle for drug-traffickers in a scheme that prosecutors said could have been "ripped from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel."
Three members of the gang were ready to assassinate a federal agent for an $800,000 payoff, and one of them boasted that murder-for-hire was "fun," according to court papers.
"The charges tell a tale of an international band of mercenary marksmen who enlisted their elite military training to serve as hired guns for evils ends," said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
"Three of the defendants were ready, willing and eager to take cold hard cash to commit the cold-blooded murders of a DEA agent and an informant."
More at http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...s-say#comments