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Tomislav Damnjanovic

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Tomislav Damnjanovic is a Serbian businessman and arms smuggler. A former employee of Yugoslavia's national airline, Damnjanovic founded his own company transporting supplies aboard an Ilyushin Il-76 freight carrier. With increasing United Nations sanctions on Yugoslavian airlines, he began to expand his operations into illegal smuggling.^[1]^[2] He attained notoriety in 2002 when, while contracted to deliver "millions of rounds of ammunition, guns, grenades and mortars" to aid the US military during the ongoing War In Iraq and War in Afghanistan, United Nations officials investigating his previous activities discovered a 15 year history of weapons deals with Libyan, Liberian, Republic of the Congo officials as well as Al Qaeda-linked Islamist groups in Somalia and other smuggling deals backed Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.^[1] The United Nations claimed that in 2006, 45 tons of supplies were sold to the Islamic Courts Union at the same time as Damnjanovic was contracted to supply US forces.^[1]^[2]

Though the investigation is still on going, its revelations called into question the United States's efforts to track smugglers, and he "profiling system" used to check the backgrounds of potential arms dealers.^[1] In 2007, a United Nations case study on Damnjanovic referred to him as an "invisible arms trafficker", claiming that he "worked outside the law. transporting weapons for US companies and weapons manufacturers based in America while at the same time using chartered flights in Africa and the Middle East in illegal operations to supply, among others, Saddam Hussein, Charles Taylor, the Burma military junta, Muammar Gaddafi and Islamic militants in Mogadishu. Damnjanovic was linked to other arms dealers such as Victor Bout.^[2]

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1. ^¹²³Wood, Nicholas, [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/world/europe/07smuggler.html?_r=1 For Balkan Shipping Agent, War Is Good for Business], New York Times. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
2. ^¹²EXTRACT - Identification and Disruption of Clandestine Arms Traffickers from the United Nations, 31 September 2007. Retrieved 8 May 2012.

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