Here is today’s The New York Times artcile on the arms dealer arrested in Newark on charges that he tried to sell a Russian-made surface-to-air missille to an unedrcover agent posing as an al-Quade operative. And this is the latest on it from ABC News, it details the indictment. The immediate thing to note from all this (although we will learn more, even in the next few days) is the extraordinary cooperation between U.S., Russian, and British intelligence services (including the newly created Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is part of the Homeland Security Department. Also note that the Secret Service was also somehow involved. Does this mean that the President or Air Force I was a possible target? Here is a short note on the SA 18.